Apparently what’s good for DC is good for Houston. If the FBI, CIA, DOJ et al can do that and worse, the narcs in Texas surely can, too./S?
Any chance Dems have been in charge of Houston for a long time?
Who’s the chief?
I favor a Captial Murder charge with a Death Penalty at the other end of the process. That might set an example, although it didn’t really seem to impact police corruption in New Orleans. (Antoinette Renee Frank, Len Davis, James Gill, Rogers LaCaze). LaCaze eventally beat the death penalty and got off with a light sentence of Life without Parole. So now New Orleans is down to three cops on death row, instead of 4.
I expect the FR bootlickers to show up soon to flame me. Have fun.
“Why are you guys (these bad cops) in Vice?”
“Because that’s where the money is.”
—with apologies to bank robber Willie Sutton.
Much of this stuff could, and would, have been swept under the rug, even 10 years ago.
But now, with so much video and cell phone evidence in the data bases... investigators can go back years to see if your cell phone was where you said it was...
These guys got lazy and cut a lot of corners, and took a lot of stuff they should not have, because they thought they were above the law.
And they were above the law, until two innocent people were killed because they did not follow the rules.
I do not have much sympathy for them.
Keeping the same people in narcotics, for their entire career, is insanely stupid. It is asking for corruption.
Indeed even Dirty Harry didn’t go by all the rules.
Gerald Goines is a real piece of work. The article left out some of the more lurid details. Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas were white. The police shot them and their dog. Gerald Goines’ “confidential informant,” who he said bought heroin at the home is a prostitute that Goines had sex with. They found loose drugs and an unregistered gun in Goines’ car.