The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

Author:Alex S. Vitale
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Verso Books

Corruption

It is impossible to fully catalog the abuses of authority, thefts, bribes, and drug sales committed by US police every day in the War on Drugs. The extremely profitable black market ensures that there will always be a strong incentive for dealers to bribe the police to look the other way, and for police to protect, steal from, or become drug dealers.

Most of the major police scandals of the last fifty years have had their roots in the prohibition of drugs. The Rampart Scandal in Los Angeles involved officers abusing their authority and engaging in brutality toward drug dealers in Los Angeles and eventually involved the stealing of drugs from evidence rooms and selling it on the streets. The book and movie Prince of the City detail the corruption of narcotics detectives in New York who traffic in drugs to get information from informants, take bribes, and steal money and drugs from dealers.17 Similar practices were uncovered in the late 1990s by the Mollen Commission and its investigation of the “Dirty Thirty” precinct in Harlem.18

More recently, drug scandals have emerged in numerous police agencies, including the DEA. For example, in March 2015 alone:

•The Fresno (California) Police Department’s second in command was arrested by FBI and ATF agents for dealing oxycodone, marijuana, and heroin.19

•In Scott County, Tennessee, a deputy sheriff was arrested for burglarizing drugs from the police evidence room.20

•An NYPD officer was arrested in Florida after he was caught in a drug sting attempting to buy $200,000 worth of cocaine.21

•A Miami-Dade police lieutenant pled guilty to aiding cocaine smugglers and planning the execution of rival dealers.22

•A Winston County, Alabama, deputy was sentenced to more than three years in prison for extorting a local woman into cooking methamphetamine for him to distribute.23

•An FBI agent who spent years working on drug enforcement pled guilty to sixty-four counts of stealing heroin from evidence bags for his own use.24

•A police officer from Titusville, Florida, was sentenced to ten years in prison for dealing cocaine.25

•The DEA released a report detailing how agents assigned to Colombia had for years been having sex parties paid for by local drug cartels.26

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