Police Officers Become Crack Dealers To Make Arrests

All police forces use informants to make their case. These informants are usually paid with cash or leniency, however, some Brooklyn police officers decided to become crack dealers in order to make their cases.

Four police officers in Brooklyn are under arrest in a case that involves paying informants 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.

Prosecutors have moved to dismiss more than 80 criminal cases because the officers caught in the scandal were considered critical to successful prosecutions, law enforcement officials said, and the office of the Brooklyn district attorney is analyzing about 100 more potentially tainted cases.

Can you imagine how deep rooted this problem will get. They will probably have criminals pretending that the officers used this type of payment on them. This will definitely get nastier as time goes on. I wonder how many top officials knew about their activities and decided to turn a blind eye to it.