>>SEVEN BALTIMORE POLICE OFFICERS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON
RACKETEERING CHARGES.
US ATTY.
GEN.
IS TALKING ABOUT THIS.
THEY
ARE SIX DETECTIVES, AND A SURGEON ON THE CITY'S GUN TRACE
TASK FORCE TEAM.
WHEN I WAS REFERENCING ABUSE OF POWER
EARLIER THIS IS WHAT I WAS
TALKING ABOUT.
THERE IS A LOT OF GROSS MISCONDUCT GOING ON HERE.
TO GIVE YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT ABOUT THE BALTIMORE
POLICE DEPARTMENT AND WHY THERE
IS SUCH SCRUTINY ON THEM ñ THIS HAS REALLY COME AS A SHOCK FOR
THE BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
BUT I WANT TO GET A REACTION
FROM YOU GUYS.
WERE YOU SHOCKED?
>> IT WAS THE LEAST SHOCKED THING I'VE HEARD MY WHOLE LIFE.
CORRUPT COPS IN BALTIMORE?
INTERESTING.
IT IS GREAT NEWS
BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
DID AN INVESTIGATION OF COPS IN BALTIMORE.
AT THE TIME YOU
REMEMBER CONSERVATIVES WERE
DISMAYED BY IT.
JUST LET THEM DO WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO.
THEN THEY
CAN DO REAL POLICING.
REMEMBER AT THE TIME THERE WAS ALL THESE
TALKING POINTS ABOUT CRIME GOING UP BECAUSE THEY WON'T LET THE
COPS DO THEIR JOBS.
NO, THEY WERE SEEING IF THERE WAS ANY
CROOKED COPS.
IT TURNS OUT WHEN THEY DID THE INVESTIGATION THEY
FOUND THEM.
THESE GUYS WOULD PULL OVER INNOCENT PEOPLE IN
BALTIMORE AND WOULD ROB THEM.
THEY WOULD SEIZE THEIR ASSETS.
THEY TOOK A COUPLE HUNDRED
DOLLARS IN ONE CASE, AND OTHERS THEY TOOK $200,000.
>>WHO'S GONNA CATCH YOU?
THE POLICE?
>>THAT IS WHY THEY DO IT.
IF YOU NEVER INVESTIGATE THE COPS THEY
GET AWAY WITH IT.
THAT IS WHY THEY KNEW THEY COULD GET AWAY
WITH IT.
BUT THEN THEY DID STUPID STUFF LIKE GOING GAMBLING
AND CHARGING THE DEPARTMENT.
GOING TO MYRTLE BEACH FOR A
WHOLE WEEK AND CHARGING THE
DEPARTMENT.
EVEN THE DEPARTMENT GETS ANNOYED THAT SO THAT IS PART OF THE
REASON THEY GOT BUSTED PROBABLY THOUGHT
>>ONE OF THE WORST DEFENDERS IN REGARDS TO OVERTIME PAY.
HIS
SALARY WAS $85,000 AND HE RECEIVED MORE THAN $83,000 IN
ADDITION BECAUSE OF THIS FALSE
OVERTIME PAY THAT HE RECEIVED.
THE GOAL TO DO THIS, IT IS
ABSOLUTELY SHAMELESS.
IT IS SO MUCH MONEY BUT IS WHAT I COULDN'T BELIEVE DUCK
>> POWER CORRUPTS, AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
IF
YOU NEVER DO OVERSIGHT OF THE
COPS THEY WILL ROB PEOPLE BLIND LITERALLY.
ONE OF THE REASONS
THEY GOT CAUGHT IS BECAUSE THEY DID THE OVERTIME TRICK AND ROB
FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THE
REST OF THE COPS WERE LIKE MAYBE YOU CROSSED THE LINE THERE.
EVEN SO THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND
BALTIMORE NEVER DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT CAME IN AND DID THIS INVESTIGATION.
>>THIS IS WHAT OVERSIGHT DOES.
THAT IS WHAT YOU NEED WATCHDOGS
AND FOLKS TO WATCH AND MAKE SURE THESE KINDS OF THINGS DON'T
HAPPEN.
AND WHEN THEY DO THEY NEED TO PROSECUTE THEM.
LISTEN
IF THE OVERSIGHT IS THERE WHEN THEY DON'T FIND ANYTHING, GREAT
FOR YOU.
BUT YOU NEED THIS KIND OF STUFF.
THIS IS WHAT THIS IS
FOR.
WHEN FOLKS SAY THE GOVERNMENT IS OVERREACHING AND
THERE IS TOO MUCH REGULATION AND
REDTAPE, I'M NOT TRYING TO STOP YOU FROM DOING THINGS YOU SHOULD
BE DOING.
WE ARE TRYING TO STOP YOU FROM DOING THINGS YOU SHOULD
NOT BE DOING BECAUSE THEY ARE BAD PEOPLE AND THIS IS THE KIND
OF STUFF EVERYONE SHOULD BE
FOCUSED ON AND I'M GLAD THEY CAUGHT THESE PEOPLE.
>> I AM ALSO GLAD THE POLICE COMMISSIONER SAID THIS IS A GOOD
THING THAT HAPPENED.
I THINK THAT IS THE SILVER LINING HERE
THAT FROM THE HIGHEST ORDER YOU
HAVE THE GUY SAYING WHAT THEY DID WAS CORRECT, THEY ARE
DISGRACEFUL COPS AND THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN OUR DEPARTMENT.
>>IN THE MIDST OF THIS INVESTIGATION THEY STUDIED THE
ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY THE COPS HAD IN BALTIMORE FOR THE
COMMUNITY.
ZERO-TOLERANCE FOR ANYONE DOING ANYTHING WRONG IN
THE COMMUNITY, HAD ALMOST NO IMPACT ON CRIME.
FOR THE COPS
THEMSELVES THEY APPARENTLY HAD
VERY HIGH TOLERANCE.
ONE OF THE GUYS NAMES WAS G MONEY GONDO.
I'M NOT SAYING A NICKNAME IS THE END-ALL BE-ALL, BUT WHAT THESE
GUYS WERE DOING WAS OBVIOUS.