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mikehz

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Institutionalized crooked cops
« on: May 09, 2010, 08:39:20 PM »

Today's Fresh Air on NPR featured a story about this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for investigative reporting.

Philadelphia Daily News reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman landed the prize for their 10-month series "Tainted Justice," an expose of alleged corruption among members of an elite narcotics squad on the Philadelphia police force."

The cops would bust the owner of a business on trumped up drug charges, for example, for possessing plastic bags small enough to hold drugs. During the bust, the cops would disable the store's cameras, and once the owner was hauled off, proceed to steal whatever they could. 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126386819
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« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2010, 09:15:07 AM »

Abuse of power is horrible.  Authority should be used carefully and wisely.  One should not let power and greed to corrupt the soul.
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« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2010, 11:52:16 AM »

Abuse of power is horrible.  Authority should be used carefully and wisely.  One should not let power and greed to corrupt the soul.

Thanks for the advice and words of wisdom.
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