Roar Mikalsen - HUMAN RISING - radiofri..

Lauderdale, Florida, five years after DEA supervisor Rene de la Cova had received great
notoriety for taking former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega into custody, de la
Cova plead guilty to stealing $760 000 in laundered drug money and was sentenced to
prison. In New Orleans, eleven police officers and a civilian employee were convicted
and about two hundred police officers were fired after an FBI sting operation disclosed
that they were involved in widespread violence and theft of cocaine from drug dealers.
(…) Not only is this drug-money corruption a problem of enormous concern in its
own right, but additional lawless behavior is derived from it as well. For example, the
entire southern California area was shocked in September 1999 when a former officer
of the Rampart Division of the LAPD who had been convicted of stealing eight pounds
of cocaine started testifying about drug-related offenses. He confessed that he and
fellow officers had been stealing drugs and drug money from drug dealers, using
prostitutes to sell the drugs for them, planting evidence, and committing perjury
repeadetly in court. He further testifies that he and a fellow officer har shot an
unarmed black man they believed was a drug dealer, after he was in handcuffs, and
then framed him by planting a sawed off .22 rifle on him and testifying falsely that the
man had assaulted them with it. That young man was concivted, and had already
served three years of his twenty-three-year sentence before the truth came out.
Worse yet, the police bullets will keep this man in a wheel-chair for the rest of his
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Videre etterforsking i denne saken avslørte at minst 28 politimenn til fra
LAPD var involvert i lignende praksis, noe som fikk LAPD til å erkjenne at rundt
hundre tiltalte feilaktig var blitt dømt.
Selv om alt dette Gray omtaler her er oppsiktsvekkende, er det ikke så
uvanlig som man kanskje skulle tro (mer om dette) 93 . Den tidligere
politimannen Mike Ruppert anslår at det finnes rundt 60 000 åpne interne
granskninger av politikorrupsjon rundt om i USA, og den tidligere politimannen
Barry Cooper anslår at rundt 85 prosent av politistyrkene i USA lyver, stjeler, og
planter bevis for å øke pågripelsesstatistikkene sine (om Barry Cooper) 94 . 85
prosent høres unektelig mye ut, og få kan vel forestille seg at en så omfattende
korrupsjon kunne utvikle seg i et land vi er opplært til å se som et
foregangsland på mange måter.
Men Cooper er ikke den eneste tjenestemannen som har talt ut om
dette. En annen som kjenner problemet gjennom sine egne erfaringer er
Sandalio “Sandy” Gonzalez. Hun var DEA agent i 27 år, og på et tidspunkt leder
for etatens operasjoner i Sør-Amerika. Hun fikk imidlertid sparken i 2005 etter
at hun avslørte hvordan etterforskere tilknyttet immigrasjons- og tollvesenet i
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