We Fabricated Drug Charges Against Innocent People To Meet Arrest Quotas, Former Detective Testifies.

You'll see more of this as they privatize the penal system. The incentive is to put and keep people in jail, even if they don't belong there.

a fucking shame. its a good thing not all cops are bad cops but plenty of them are.

The concept of an arrest quota is fucking disgusting beyond my ability to describe.

they had exactly the same problem during Prohibition...which caused a major increase in the corruption of our police, in deaths, assaults, property crimes, lawlessness & turned a huge number of otherwise law-abiding citizens in2 criminals over-nite...it took us 13yrs 2 learn (thankfully) that it wuz a total failure @ social-engineering & that we can't legislate "personal morality"... but yet we continue on with the insanity of the "Drug Wars"...with the same adverse effects of enforcement & 2 a much greater extent...only this war haz been goin on fo mo than 100 yrs & we haven't learned a damn thing...u know the def of "insanity" rite (u keep doin same thing over & over expecting a different result)...we r indeed freakin "INSANE"...stop the freakin "DRUG WARS" NOW!!!...b4 they ship us off 2 BELLEVUE...lol

My God! Corruption all around. I've had a similar thing happen to me, not with drugs and it was employees of a California State bureaucracy and the Judicial system in Los Angeles, CA. State employees willfully made false claims and assertions under oath with the endorsement of the Los Angeles City Attorneys Office

This happens everywhere, I know of somebody right now about to take a precinct to court over a falsified search warrant, and this incident is nowhere near New York... Sad, the name on the warrant was of a fairly young church goer, who is very active in her community, volunteers with the elderly and just an all around good person... According to the warrant she was trafficking a considerable amount of something, and supposedly she had made several sales to confidential informants.... Out right lies, she works a job full-time, she volunteers, and the rest of her time is spent at church, they found nothing after kicking her door in..... It's going to be funny when a whole congregation, and the better part of a nursing home show up in court, along with her employers....

It's typical, and they can play the degrees of separation game, and virtually link you to anyone.... Like "7 degrees of Kevin Bacon".... Trust me if a cop, or department doesn't like you, or just wants to meet a quota, they can string up enough shit to give you an extremely hard time... Particularly if you're poor... And the laws are so slanted, all you have to do is bite your tongue and they can technically get you for "conspiracy"... So if you happened to see something you weren't supposed to, or the cops think you have and want to build a case.... Great there goes a conspiracy to traffic several tons of something, just because you saw something, and didn't feel at liberty to speak.....

Idk how many poor people are in prison right now, because somebody on their block was dealing drugs, and they refused to tell on the person fearing for their safety..... And trust, if you tell on someone it better be ANONYMOUSLY..... All the accused has to do is hold a "not guilty" plea the length of the trial and they will find out who said what.... (& if they really are "the man" they're not going to take it to lightly, also if they're up there on the food chain, they can plea it out and still find out just not legally.)

Besides about 75% (extremely conservative estimate) of the cops everywhere are bought off, only a small percentage are really trying to uphold the laws..... The majority are taking bribes, they know who does what and why, and they loose money for locking up the real culprits.....

It is all about the money, no two ways about it, and if you're a young minority member... Very high probability of ending up a slave to the system, because once you get a felony nobody will hire you for a decent job, and the jobs that will won't pay... Virtual slavery, Jim Crow revisited. Pisses me off, the rest of us are getting ripped off to house these innocent people turned slaves....

It's such a multiBillion dollar illicit industry too, and at this point, the money is being laundered in so many ways.... The damn cartels are laundering their money through construction companies building prisons, to lock up their competition... Then they control the business within the prison, and those drugs cost quadruple at least....

(Let's just say I didn't type all that but it's VERY true....)

Age old story, sadly. Recently, a Vancouver City cop was jailed for selling drugs while in uniform!! He did so in this city's most oppressed and drug-ridden areas, the downtown east-side. And he's just the one that was caught.
And the 4 Mounties who tased to death a Polish immigrant (who was a bit drunk and confused), arriving at the airport and who didn't speak English: were all charged with perjury along with the homicide charge, for protecting each other (aka lying) on the stand. But while they awaited trial (about 2 years) they were on PAID leave. I once had respect... once upon a time, long long ago.

This happened in my city years ago. It's disgraceful.

This article is a prime example why government should not be run like a business. It causes government corruption and forces people to lie and cheat to keep their jobs!!! Sad day in America!!!!

There is a useful internal guide to modern practice among lawyers called "The 80% rule." It's understood that:"cops on the stand lie 80% of the time."

If you think that's exaggerated, ask a lawyer you trust--another problematic search in many cases, but you may get lucky...

This is one of the reasons that Blacks, and Minorities make up the majority of the prison population. It is widely known in the Black Community, that police plant drugs/weapons on innocent people.

Looks like a good spot for my drop gun, now time to sprinkle some crack on the scene.

This just one department................

Your Justice system at work! Ha Ha HA!

Just another reason why I'm ashamed to be human. What is wrong with us?

Glad they got the surveillance tape .....

If they don't get the quotas I guess they can't justify the expense for a war on drugs. If the police really wanted to bust illegal drug activity they need only sit at one of the little pharmacys in every town in FL and watch the goings on. These are the drugs that are a problem and they are manufactured and profited off of right here. The doctors that prescribe these pills and the FDA that lets them should be in jail as they at one time were only given to terminal patients due to their affects on the body which haven't changed...only the guidelines have.

Happy to see more truth finding the light of day.

No surprise here. Move along. Just say no. There's nothing to see here.