The old gun-check ruse…
A “dozen or more” B.P.D. arrested?! Peter Hermann of the Sunreports:
a federal corruption probe that involves an improper relationship with a Baltimore towing company, sources said.
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The officers were arrested today at the police academy after being called in under the guise that their firearms needed to be checked.
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Multiple sources say the officers are mostly from the Northeast District and many of them are officers who were recruited years ago in a push to bring in Latino officers from Puerto Rico. That information could not immediately be confirmed.
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Hey Pete,
I don't know about you, but I am always shocked when I hear about officers doing stuff like this. Just like in our squad, we never saw anyone doing anything remotely criminal. Then, I worked an additional 6 + years after you left, and still never saw anything even close. So, I am always blown away when I hear stuff like this.
Thanks for saying this, Gotti. Because I too am shocked. But I'm afraid if I say I'm shocked, people will just think I'm a fool (which they may think regardless).
I will say I saw some bad policing, some lazy policing, and a whole lot of rude policing (sometimes just by looking in the mirror–though generally I wasn't rude. And maybe you and I worked a secondary that wasn't departmentaly approved–I'm not saying we did, but it's possible). I also saw a lot of good policing. And cops shot for doing their job. But I can honestly say I never saw criminal policing!
And it's not like we working some cushy unit in HQ. We were friggin' midnight sector 2 in the Eastern. There was nowhere lower to go (exept maybe sector one)! If there wasn't corruption there, where would it be?
And for tow-truck kick-back money? It's so petty. And so retro!
This is what I mean by retro.