Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [p p run] at [newsit.mtt.it.uswc.uswest.com]
Subject: Crooked cops
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 19:30:36 GMT

Many times on the net someone posts something like "Why do you need guns,
just call 911 and let the cops deal with it?"  We usually respond with,
"The cops are not required to help, as determined by the Surpreme Court."
There is another reason.  The following sentences are from the latest
Time magazine, reprinted without permission from the "Cops and Robbers"
article:

<One time Bronx patrolman Bernie Cawley, 29, now serving three years to
life for narcotics charges and for selling stolen guns, told the
commission why he was known to other cops as the Mechanic.  "Because I
used to 'tune people up,'" he placidly explained.  "It's a police word for
beating people."  Suspects? he was asked.  "No, I was just beating people
up in general."  In four years on the force, Cawley claimed, he assaulted
people as many as 400 times with his nightstick, flashlight, and lead-
lined gloves.  "Who's going to catch us?" he said, shrugging.  "We're the
police.">

And later:

<The deluge of cash that has flowed from the drug trade has created
opportunities for quick dirty money on a scale never seen before.>

Just like Prohibition did in its time.

Pete
"There are no atheists in foxholes or liberals in riots."