Anonymous wrote:PSA: use incognito mode in chrome for WaPo

This in a thread about corruption. Huh.

I'm beginning to think "The Wire" was aspirational.

Anonymous wrote:PSA: use incognito mode in chrome for WaPo

Or, you know, pay for the paper. It's an old fashioned idea but still works.

PSA: use incognito mode in chrome for WaPo

Anonymous wrote:I don't even know what the solution is, but I feel like they need to do something drastic to get kids from growing up in these areas and turning out poorly. Kids just can't escape and it's a bad cycle.

I don't think we need to get the kids out of bad areas. We need to find a way to make the bad areas good. The ironic thing is that I would normally suggest doing this with a massive increase of police presence and enforcement, but this thread is about corruption in the force.

First 4 paragraphs (but read the rest if you can. It's jaw-dropping, even for Baltimore.)
....

The officers’ job during some of the bloodiest years in Baltimore was to get guns off the streets.

Instead, they plundered money, jewelry, drugs and weapons and gouged the cash-strapped city for overtime and ghost hours they never worked, according to their own admissions and testimony in ongoing criminal cases.

Over the past four years, some members of the Gun Trace Task Force stole more than $300,000, at least three kilos of cocaine, 43 pounds of marijuana, 800 grams of heroin and hundreds of thousands of dollars in watches from suspected drug dealers and civilians, according to officers’ plea agreements and statements in federal court.

They admit to putting illegal trackers on the cars of suspected dealers so they could rob their homes and sell off any drugs and guns they found. The squad sergeant, Wayne Jenkins, carried brass knuckles, a machete and a grappling hook — all shown to jurors — in case they found a “monster” dealer to swindle, two officers testified in Baltimore over the past week. Those officers testified that Jenkins also told them to carry BB guns to plant at crime scenes in case they ever needed to justify why they had hurt someone.

Here is a link to a similar article:

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/01/30/baltimore-police-trial/

I don't even know what the solution is, but I feel like they need to do something drastic to get kids from growing up in these areas and turning out poorly. Kids just can't escape and it's a bad cycle.

Anonymous wrote:Ok, try this link.

http://wapo.st/2ns4qla?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.d3f29c86e133

Nope...but here is the headline:


"Their job was to take guns off Baltimore streets. They admitted stealing drugs and cash instead.
Several officers in elite squad have pleaded guilty and are testifying in trial of colleagues."

Summary? Don't have WaPo.

Yeah, it's completely heartbreaking. This city has so many problems, so many resources wasted, so many lives just completely lost.

and I live here.

In before people start posting how great and awesome and safe Baltimore is.

Unfortunately it is a dirty, corrupt and dangerous city (with a few small neighborhoods that are a little nice).

Ok, try this link.

http://wapo.st/2ns4qla?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.d3f29c86e133

not everyone has a WaPo login

This one has me gobsmacked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/their-job-was-to-take-guns-off-baltimore-streets-they-admitted-stealing-drugs-and-cash-instead/2018/01/30/336eed26-029a-11e8-9d31-d72cf78dbeee_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news2_baltimore-745am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.1eb543b10296