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.Probably the single most effective thing to reduce police abuse in America would be to end the war on drugs and decriminalize drugs.No-knock warrants were originally used to try to catch drug dealers before they could flush the drugs down the toilet.Civil forfeiture was originally created to try to take money from drug dealers.The war on drugs has taken a wrecking ball to the Fourth Amendment restrictions on search and seizure.