• IWW4@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Not a kingpin but cops being owned by drug dealers is very real.

    A buddy of mine, who is no longer a cop, was forced out because of that. My friend arrested a guy for beating up his wife. While looking through the guy’s text messages my friend found evidence that the guy was a drug dealer and was paying off another cop in the department to do all the shit you see in movies. Protect deals, take out competition, steal evidence to sell …the whole nine.

    Why was my friend forced out? Well the chief of the detective unit (or whatever they called it) was inline to take on the #2 job in the state police department so he didn’t want any scandals. So he wanted the whole things covered up. My friend wouldn’t do it.

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      3 hours ago

      Do you know why he was going through a suspects texts? Seems like he was asking for trouble. I won’t even go through texts I have access to.

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        3 hours ago

        He dumped the guy’s phone as part of investigating the domestic violence incident.

        He was asking for trouble by doing his job?