A narcotics investigator with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was arrested and charged with two felonies Friday, accused of selling a handgun to a convicted burglar.
Eight-year veteran Jason S. Barber, 32, was the fourth Indianapolis police officer and the third narcotics officer in the department to be arrested on felony charges in the past two weeks. There are 16 officers in the narcotics unit.
But there are "just a few bad apples," right? That's what we keep hearing. Everybody else is a stand-up guy.
If every one of the 16 narco-"Only Ones" didn't know about the corruption, they're too damned oblivious to be detectives. I just wonder how many of them haven't been caught yet.
Top heads should roll. Except they're the ones who set the tone.
"Highest integrity" my ... eye.
[Via Shermlock Shomes]
The intent of these criminal officers may not have been so much for illicit profit as a need for more paid vacation to relieve the stress of holding the thin blue line.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the way crooked cops game the system for more paid leave?
When we excuse or demand enforcement of counterfeit "laws" such as those against "drugs" and guns, this is the type of pervert that gravitates toward the job.
ReplyDeleteI go to church with a cop who knows Long and Edwards. He was trying to convince a couple of us that -- aside from their shaking down drug dealers, skimming the take, and their drug dealing/fence operation -- they were really great guys. He described them as "good, Christian family men."
ReplyDeleteYeah, we weren't buying it, either.