What is going on everyone? Have you ever done some shady stuff? If you're a
politician and your name's not Jimmy Carter the answer is probably yes.
Politics and corruption always have seemed to go together like peas and
carrots, like movies and popcorn, like poor decision-making and Jagermeister
like you get the idea political corruption isn't just in Washington DC
with the president members of Congress and senator type thing no we've seen
police officers indicted elected city officials hauled off in handcuffs
influence-peddling operations with politicians reaching all new lows that's
just in the last few years if you're looking for signs of corruption you need
to start with budget shortfalls rumors of nepotism corrupt police departments
and city officials going on vacations with real estate developers because we
all know millionaires like to hang out with dudes that make $30,000 a year
working at the city's planning office anyway those are just a couple of the
warning signs with all the nonsense going on in the world of politics I
thought this would be a fitting subject this week before we get rolling there's
something you should all understand I mean we should all just understand it
both sides of the aisle are guilty of nonsense it's just the way it is it's
just the way it's always been the only difference is what side of that nonsense
are you on so what was the methodology for this list that's an easy question I
look to the city that has a lot of experience in shady politicians Chicago
University of Chicago Illinois did a study in early 2019 with data from 2016
17 18 and came up with stats charts and opinions on what cities in the United
States are the most corrupt here's that list of shame
number 10 Las Vegas if you didn't know about Las Vegas and corruption you
probably don't pay much attention to the news especially and for that I'm kind of
jealous I wish I didn't pay as much attention to the news it's kind of
depressing anyway after a three-year FBI investigation Las Vegas councilman Ricky
Barlow pleaded guilty to fraud charges and resigned his seat in January of 2018
the Barlow investigation is as you can imagine the tip of a very large iceberg
in Las Vegas after the mass shooting by some coward in Vegas a couple years back
the FBI also uncovered some shady ways of doing things by the local law
enforcement agency in Vegas including Las Vegas cops
actually arresting someone who called to report police brutality he witnessed on
the streets in 2017 I got a sucks it's not the guy you're supposed to be
arresting number nine Newark New Jersey now this one might
seem like something out of a fictional cop drama movie type thing but I assure
you it is not the City of Newark had 442 corruption convictions between the years
2000 and 2014 that's convictions not just accused they
were convicted how does a city with a population of around 280,000 hit so many
corruption convictions do they do like a two-day class on how to do shady stuff
and rip off your constituents and nobody showed up for day two which teaches you
about how not to get caught the watershed scandal exposed in 2016
actually blew local observers away with the brazenness of this illegal operation
this whole thing was just a bunch of people in charge of various things
apparently trying to outdo each other to see who's the biggest scumbag speaking
of scumbags in New Jersey two of Governor Chris Christie's aides got
federal prison time in 2017 for their role in the Bridgegate corruption
scandal and then in 2018 the US Attorney's Office took another guilty
plea when a political fundraiser Neuer admitted to wire fraud and tax evasion
Newark is as corrupt as ever in 2019 I am sure number eight Los Angeles
California since the turn of the century Los
Angeles has posted five hundred and seven corruption convictions and that
alone gets them on this list they would have been higher but they have like ten
times as many people ten times as many politicians and ten times as many
departments than say Newark New Jersey in number nine so the per capita saves
them from being much higher on this list if you go all the way back to the 1920s
you probably be shell-shocked reading all the crap people running the City of
Angels have tried to pull off and fail that I grew up in Los Angeles in the 80s
and 90s and I always remember some sort of corruption scandal going on then you
have the LAPD which has made great strides in the right direction in the
last 20 years or so still got a long way to go by most people's accounts the days
of letting in the cops who beat Rodney King go free are a distant memory but
clearly there are problems city officials need to get a handle on
everyone in LA hates the DMV even more so when they found out the DMV
officials were taking bribes most of the people were pissed off they didn't know
there was a bribe system in place that could have got them to the head of the
line to renew their license ask anyone who grew up in Los Angeles and they will
tell you the DMV is an all-day affair of suckage for the most minor things
oh and Compton's Mayer was found guilty of corruption and sent to jail la has a
long way to go number seven New Orleans the corruption and the Big Easy is
legendary they've made movies and written books about it several of each
really the whole state Louisiana is pretty much bad when the New Orleans FBI
director left his post in late 2017 he summed up corruption in the Big Easy
like this it can't get much worse he cited that the lack of term limits for
sheriffs and District Attorney's as hallmarks for bad government the 334
convictions for various types of corruption since 2000 sort of proves the
FBI director was right to New Orleans cops went to jail in November of 2018
for bribery and conspiracy convictions and they won't be the last they're kind
of going through a housecleaning type thing so to speak we'll see how that all
works out here in the next couple years number six
New York City corruption convictions go back to the early 1800s in New York City
like New Orleans so many movies have been filmed and books have been written
about the corruption in New York City they almost take pride in it for some
reason how sad is that the New York City Police Department corruption scandals
over the years have always kept a city in the top ten of most corrupt cities in
2017 the city watch has two cops and a former prosecutor got arrested for
bribery scheme involving gun permits in 2018 a Brooklyn Assemblymember got hit
with an 11 count indictment from the FBI New York has gotten better in recent
years but it's gonna take generations for them to change such a corrupt system
even New York City street parking is preposterous ly corrupt that's what one
post said that could be a great scary movie you know if you think about it I
want to do the voice-over for the trailer know when meter maids go bad
you'll see what happens when you go one minute over at the wrong parking meter
this parking enforcement doesn't play nice they'll even check your car
insurance bite the head off your Geico gecko bobblehead doll and spit it back
at you yeah it's that bad in New York City they're going after the Geico gecko
number five Houston Texas while places like Los Angeles in New York had
slowed their pace on corruption cases by 2013 Houston I guess didn't want to look
like quitters and they went full steam ahead in a single year Texas Southern
District posted 83 convictions most of any city in the United States one year
they don't seem to be slowing down either Steve Stockman who is a former
Republican House member from Texas he was indicted on 28 criminal charges in
2017 Stockman faced charges from stealing hundreds thousands dollars from
charities money laundering wire fraud and conspiracy when he was arrested by
FBI agents Stockman tried to board a plane to the arab emirate he was
sentenced to ten years in the big house number 4 Baltimore Maryland Baltimore is
a city on the mend a lot of people see it as turning around within the next
five to ten years and if you know where they've been in the last three or four
decades you know that's saying something if you
go simply by the number of corruption convictions in the recent decades
Baltimore isn't that bad however the magnitude of the corruption events is
like when the FBI exposed the police department corruption in 2018 a sergeant
pled guilty to racketeering and other federal crimes while a local businessman
involved in the same case got 11 indictments for money laundering
there's also planning of evidence all kinds of nasty stuff in there meanwhile
while this is going on the entire police department is still reeling from the
guns trace task force a scandal that could have been on an episode of any
gritty cop show in a 2016 investigation the US Department of Justice found that
the Baltimore Police Department was abusive and corrupt on multiple levels
they had widespread racism at every stage of its enforcement and a constant
source of constitutional right violations the Justice Department
explained that these practices have eroded the community's trust that is
critical to the effectiveness of policing the US attorney on the case
described the group as both cops and robbers at the same time they were
basically preying on the citizens and the more you read about that case it
just gets worse I read about 30 minutes on the gun trace task force that part
alone and it was bad it was bad but in January of last year 2018 the mayor of
Baltimore announced that she was firing the City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis
Davis's successor Darryl deed de Sousa sailed through the confirmation process
and he was put in as the police commissioner for about a month and then
he had resigned because they've realized he had been
paying as taxes number three Detroit no one is considered Detroit a pillar of
good honest government in a very long time if ever but Detroit didn't make the
University of Illinois Chicago's top ten most corrupt cities in 2015 that's good
2015 they weren't on the list they were on the straight and narrow they had
pulled it together and they became a shiny beacon of hope and prosperity for
one year it was nice while it lasted but in 2016 they went back on the list since
then things have taken a serious turn for the worst
the FBI's massive citywide corruption probe netted 12 convictions and charges
against 19 different people as of December of 2018 and apparently they're
still working on others the FBI agents spent years listening to phone calls
from more than a dozen people including some politicians businessmen as part of
this widening investigation into public corruption in the Metro Detroit area
those are all according to sealed federal documents now if they're sealed
how do we know about it how did I get this information I didn't break any laws
it was on a website really strange I thought sealed means we're not supposed
to know about it anyway six Detroit cops were indicted on extortion charges that
same month that they arrest all these people I guess they're trying to get
attention away from how many vacant lots they have in Detroit google map Detroit
it's scary how many vacant lots they have so many people just up and bailed
on this city and abandoned their homes the city had to start knocking down the
homes because people were squatting in them and just setting them on fire
sometimes as if Detroit hasn't had enough hurdles over the years they get a
bunch of a-holes that are supposed to be working on a fix instead they're doing a
bunch of shady stuff sad number two Chicago at number two we have the city
of Chicago that carries the nickname the Windy City the origins of Chicago's
famous nickname aren't entirely clear the most obvious explanation is that it
comes from the frigid breeze that blows off Lake Michigan and sweeps through the
city streets however another popular theory is that it was coined in
reference to Chicago politicians who were said to be full of hot air to
everyone you prefer I like the politician one if you want to go back
and look at the history of political corruption you would be wise to start
with Chicago it goes on way before Al Capone but this would be the most famous
era of Chicago corruption the FBI actually had to bring in an outsider
named Eliot Ness the story's been told million times
so in case you never heard it or if you've heard it the FBI brought in an
outsider named Eliot Ness to go after the Chicago Outfit led by Al Capone with
the corruption of the Chicago law enforcement agents at an epidemic status
Ness went through the records of all probation agents to create a reliable
team initially of six and eventually grown to about ten or twelve people they
they were called the untouchables they did a really good movie with Kevin
Costner a great movie watch it if you want to complete a count of one year in
big city corruption take a look at 2016 University of Illinois Chicago's report
on Chicago you'll find false medical billing planted evidence prison bribes
aldermen heading to jail and every other crime you'd expect in infamously corrupt
town not much has changed in the past few years
far too many elected officials have seen life inside a prison as I write this one
of Illinois Governor sits in jail for corruption he was trying to sell Barack
Obama's seat I talked about this in a video just recently but hey they ain't
the worst and number one Washington DC the District of Columbia got the
nickname the swamp for a reason and has nothing to do with the fact my cousin
calls his ex-wife the swamp witch now the study that I got most of this
information from put Washington DC at number one because of various events and
convictions in the Washington DC metro area but they really focused on what has
been going on in big boy politics called the federal government the study was
about what's happening now last three years or so that's how they do it every
year it's what's going on the last three years so it was pointing a lot of
fingers to the current administration sure they've had a bad run of things
people are going to jail and things like that but really it's nothing new this
has been going on forever they just happen to be the ones sitting in the
seat this year all administration's all political parties do the same shady
stuff it's just a different angle this time that's all it is in a couple years
maybe one maybe five years from now DC will be on the list with a new cast of
characters I guarantee but yeah Washington DC is
currently considered the most corrupt city in the United States for 2019 good
go in DC
alright so that is my top 10 most corrupt cities in the United States hope
you guys enjoy the list hope you got some information out of it uh it's a
weird world we live in corruptions been going on since before
the Roman days I'm sure I'm not a historian but I'm sure it was around
back then I'm sure it was around when people were living in freaking caves
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