NYC Police give snitches portion of proceeds of drug seizures from dealers that the snitches pointed out to them! Doesn't that make the cops dealers themselves? Read this article!
The New York Times, January 23, 2008
Drugs-for-Information Scandal Shakes Up New York Police Narcotics Force
By Al Baker
In the world of urban policing, few relationships are as fraught with peril as those between narcotics officers and confidential informants. These informants — C.I.’s in police parlance — are often small-time criminals who are paid or get criminal charges dropped in return for information about other, theoretically more dangerous criminals.
Now four police officers in Brooklyn are under arrest in a case that involves paying informants not with cash or leniency but with the very drugs they craved, taken from the dealers who were arrested after the informants pointed them out. Two of the officers were charged in an internal sting last week after another was caught on a department audio tape bragging about the practice in September, officials said. For full story go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/nyregion/23arrest.html?pagewanted=all
Also see the article's chart on [recent NYC] ...History of Police Misconduct Charges
at http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/01/23/nyregion/23arrestchart.ready.html