Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: [catalyst remailer] at [netcom.com]
Subject: Bad NY Cops BUSTED!
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 15:30:40 -0700

Priest, stars, cops and politicians, oh and little kids. Death penalty
for all drug use is the only way. No trial. Just bullets. Bullets 
bullets bullets, oh and helicopters.

        NEW YORK (AP) -- A dozen officers were arrested overnight on drug
and weapons charges in the largest roundup stemming from the city's
recent police corruption probe, a law enforcement source said
Friday.
        During the sweep, which ranged throughout the metropolitan area,
police also arrested 13 drug dealers, the source told The
Associated Press.
        The source, who is close to the investigation and spoke on the
condition of anonymity, told the AP that the 12 officers worked the
overnight shift in the 30th Precinct in Harlem. At their
arraignments later Friday morning in Manhattan, they were to be
charged with offenses including selling, stealing and using drugs,
selling guns and shooting a drug dealer during a robbery, the
source said -- all while on duty.
        The officers' names were not immediately available.
        The arrests were made by police and by investigators from the
Mollen Commission, which has been conducting an investigation into
corruption in the Police Department.
        Two of the officers were arrested Thursday night in the 30th
Precinct in northwest Harlem, with Police Commissioner William
Bratton on hand. He went to the precinct at about 11:20 p.m. and
the two officers, in street clothes and handcuffs, were driven away
in separate police cars just before midnight.
        Bratton did not speak to reporters; department spokesman John
Miller, also at the scene, refused to comment on the arrests of any
other officers.
        Across the street from the precinct, at least 30 angry
teen-agers protested, yelling comments such as ``Arrest Dick
Tracy!'' and calling police officers ``dealers.''
        Bratton returned to the stationhouse Friday morning to give a
pep talk to other officers in the precinct at roll call for the day
tour.
        New York Newsday reported that many of the arrested officers'
activities were captured on videotape. One officer can be seen
buying a kilo of cocaine for more than $10,000 in a bodega on St.
Nicholas Avenue, the paper said.
        The investigation into the 30th Precinct started last year when
an undercover detective heard a tip about a Harlem officer who
dealt cocaine and was later videotaped during a deal, Newsday said.
The rogue officer, whose name the newspaper withheld, was
confronted and agreed to cooperate with authorities.
        Three other officers from the precinct were arrested last month
on assault and robbery charges. In a setup arranged by the
Manhattan district attorney's office, they were videotaped breaking
into an apartment, beating undercover officers, stealing cash and
searching for drugs.
        The new arrests reportedly are the result of two sting
operations. One was conducted by the Manhattan district attorney's
office, the other by U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White's office in
conjunction with the Mollen Commission, a panel appointed by former
Mayor David Dinkins to investigate corruption in New York's police
force.
        The commission began working in 1992. Chairman Milton Mollen, a
former state appeals judge, last year presided over seven days of
hearings into police wrongdoing.
        Among those who testified was Michael Dowd, a former officer who
admitted he had led a ring of drug-dealing officers in the 75th
Precinct in Brooklyn. In televised testimony, Dowd told of police
terrorizing residents, beating drug dealers and taking their money
and drugs.
        Friday's arrests are the latest in a string of corruption cases
that may affect as many as 10 of the 75 precincts in the nation's
largest police department.