Tag: corruption

(117 posts)
January 17, 2013
01/17/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.16)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.16)

Corrupt cops are headed to prison in Honolulu, Chicago, and Bridgeport, Connecticut, and one in Houston will be joining them soon. Let’s get to it: In Houston...
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January 10, 2013
01/10/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.09)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.09)

Texas cop wanted cash to make a pot possession arrest go away, Hawaii cop had his own pot garden, Philly cop was peddling ‘roids, and then there’s...
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January 2, 2013
01/02/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.01)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.01.01)

07:38pm Philadelphia keeps on paying for its out-of-control drug squad, and a pair of probation officers have pill-pilfering problems. Let’s get to it: In Philadelphia, the city...
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December 31, 2012
12/31/2012
Book Review: Smoke Signals by Martin A. Lee

Book Review: Smoke Signals by Martin A. Lee

When I first got Smoke Signals to review, I have to admit, I let it sit for a while.  I looked at the cover, the length and...
By: Anna Diaz
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December 27, 2012
12/27/2012
Civil Forfeiture Laws: State Sanctioned Theft

Civil Forfeiture Laws: State Sanctioned Theft

I have written before about how dangerous and corrupting Civil Forfeiture Laws are. The Institute for Justice reports Judge Dan Pelligrini in Pennsylvania has gone so far as to call them...
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December 19, 2012
12/19/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.12.18)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.12.18)

04:54pm A small-town Florida department run amok loses its chief–at least temporarily–an Alabama cop gets caught delivering weed, four South Texas cops get caught running cocaine,...
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December 13, 2012
12/13/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.12.12)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.12.12)

04:40pm Another Border Patrol agent goes bad, an Orlando cop power trips his way to trouble, a former Texas cop has problems with sticky fingers, and...
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December 5, 2012
12/05/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.12.04)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.12.04)

09:12pm Greed strikes down a pair of cops, including a Bay Area drug task force commander, and two more go down because of dope habits they...
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November 29, 2012
11/29/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.28)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.28)

03:12pm There seem to be some problems with drug task force leadership in Mississippi, and a Michigan cop gets in trouble for treating the forfeiture shed...
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November 21, 2012
11/21/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.20)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.20)

012, 03:18pm We have a trio of corrupt cops this week, including a former sheriff and a former police chief. Let’s get to it: In Rockingham, North...
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November 15, 2012
11/15/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.14)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.14)

04:00pm A tweaked out former Oklahoma police chief cops a plea, a Mississippi cop admits to running interference for supposed drug traffickers, and a Louisiana narc...
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November 8, 2012
11/08/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.07)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.11.07)

05:55pm Week after week, the beat goes on. Here’s the latest on the bad cop front. Let’s get to it: In Baltimore, a Baltimore police detective was...
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November 2, 2012
11/02/2012
Dr. Ali Shaygan’s Saga: Prosecutorial Misconduct in the War on Pain Docs

Dr. Ali Shaygan’s Saga: Prosecutorial Misconduct in the War on Pain Docs

08:07pm In what could become an historic case, a Florida doctor acquitted of drug dealing charges over his prescribing practices is asking the US Supreme Court...
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November 1, 2012
11/01/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.31)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.31)

02:16pm Cops, including a pair of former police chiefs, have been getting arrested on drug-related charges all over the place this past week and, of course,...
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October 25, 2012
10/25/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.24)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.24)

03:01am Small town police chiefs gone wild! Junkie cop sells stolen police guns to dealer! More crooked cops go down in stings! Let’s get to it:...
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October 17, 2012
10/17/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.16)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.16)

06:31pm A St. Louis cop is headed for federal prison for re-selling seized pot, a Camden cop is heading there too, for running amok in the...
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October 10, 2012
10/10/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.09)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.09)

05:34pm Some Michigan narcs were up to no good, a New Mexico probation officer gets caught carrying pounds of weed, a New York City prison guard...
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October 3, 2012
10/03/2012
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.02)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2012.10.02)

07:37pm It’s been a fairly quiet week on the corrupt cop front, but we’ve still got some Missouri jail guards in trouble, a Houston cop accused...
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October 3, 2012
10/03/2012
MA Drug Lab Scandal Gets Special Court Sessions

MA Drug Lab Scandal Gets Special Court Sessions

01:59am Court administrators in Massachusetts are scrambling to set up special court sessions to address the cases of more than a thousand people imprisoned after being...
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September 28, 2012
09/28/2012
Chemist Annie Dookhan Faked Drug Test Results, Could Unravel Thousands Of Convictions

Chemist Annie Dookhan Faked Drug Test Results, Could Unravel Thousands Of Convictions

A Massachusetts chemist, Annie Dookhan, who tested more than 60,000 drug samples submitted in the cases of about 34,000 defendants over nine years has admitted to faking drug sample results, according...
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