Baltimore police scandal

baltimore:http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20972:Trial-Reveals-Widespread-Corruption-in-Baltimore-Police-Department

“..BAYNARD WOODS: For The Real News, I’m Baynard Woods, coming to you from Baltimore, Maryland, where two members of the police department’s Gun Trace Task Force stood corruption trial today. I’ve been covering this kind of stuff, police corruption, for a long time, and it was astounding to see the kinds of details come out as just one of their co-defendants who’s already pled guilty testified. So two officers were standing trial in this case today: Detective Daniel Hersl, who for a long time has been accused by people in Baltimore’s community, and specifically, rapper Young Moose, that I’d been writing about for a long time, of robbing from them and planting guns on them. And the second officer on trial, Marcus Taylor, was also someone who had been alleged by people in the community for some time of being engaged in this material. But we heard one of his coworkers today, Maurice Ward, for hours, as federal prosecutors questioned him, sit in the court room and describe a level of corruption that, even for Baltimore, is really just gobsmacking.

This unit, this Gun Trace Task Force unit, would rob people, would find out from the cellphone of another drug dealer, who a drug dealer that may have a lot of money in his home is, put tracers on their cars, track their cars, follow them for days, then when they’re not home, go in, raid their house, steal all of their money. They went in one guy’s place — later got a warrant for it — busted open the safe, stole $100,000 or more, left $100,000 in there, and then recreated breaking open the safe and made an entire fake video for it….”