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posted by n1 on Tuesday March 28 2017, @02:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-cop,-bad-cop dept.

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

In January 2013, police raided the home of a Cleveland drug dealer, saying in a search warrant that an informant had recently bought crack cocaine there.

But the drug dealer had surveillance cameras that proved the officers were lying. He gave the tapes to his lawyer, who showed the FBI. The feds then worked to uncover a massive scandal of a rogue street-crimes unit that robbed and framed drug suspects who felt they had no choice but plead guilty to fraudulent charges.

Four years later, authorities are still unwinding the damage.

Three cops who worked for the city of East Cleveland are in prison. Cases against 22 alleged drug dealers have been dismissed. Authorities are searching for another 21 people who are eligible to have their convictions tossed. On top of those injustices, there is a slim chance that any of them will be fully reimbursed, because the disgraced officers and their former employer don't have the money.

Source: NBC News


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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:32PM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday March 28 2017, @04:32PM (#485276)

    So as I've said elsewhere here in this thread, the populace is to blame, since they keep voting for this crap.

    Honestly, you don't need much money to have an open field and a ball for kids to throw around; once you've paid for it once (the field, the goalposts, etc.), you don't need to pay for it again for decades. So if the voters are approving big tax increases that just goes for wasteful spending, that's on them.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:04PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 28 2017, @06:04PM (#485355)

    Thru a mixture of gerrymandering and identify politics, there's one party putting up one candidate. Its like blaming the Iraqi people for electing Saddam as leader a couple of times when he was the only candidate. The USA is more 3rd world than many people like to think.

    "We need to hurry up and re-enact the French Revolution to get it over with so as to achieve post-revolution normality sooner" is nice in theory but impractical.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:17PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @01:17PM (#485864)

      Revolution is never practical - sometimes coup d'etat is, but revolution, almost by definition, is messy.

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