In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed
> Caught on tape by a whistleblower cop, the officers said they witnessed or took part in alarming acts of police misconduct, from framing and beating residents to collaborating with drug dealers, all as part of a culture of impunity within the department’s narcotics unit.<p>Probably the single most effective thing to reduce police abuse in America would be to end the war on drugs and decriminalize drugs.<p>No-knock warrants were originally used to try to catch drug dealers before they could flush the drugs down the toilet.<p>Civil forfeiture was originally created to try to take money from drug dealers.<p>The war on drugs has taken a wrecking ball to the Fourth Amendment restrictions on search and seizure.