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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Story
12/10/04
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/366
/thisweek1.shtml
Either all the bad apples
have gone good or the corrupt cops have gotten smarter. This week,
for the first time in memory, we suffer a shortage of corrupt cop stories,
and the one story we do have barely rises to the level of corruption --
it's more like sheer orneriness and vengeance.
The Providence Journal reported
Saturday on the odd case of former Middletown, Rhode Island, Patrolman
Michael Braley, who pled guilty a day earlier to stealing four small bags
of marijuana from a police evidence locker with a wire-hanger. Facing
a 10-to-20-year sentence on a felony charge of "committing a prohibited
act by a law enforcement official," Braley admitted he stole the weed and
said he would resign immediately from the force. In return, instead
of prison time, Braley got 10 years probation.
"What's most important is
that Mr. Braley is no longer a police officer," Attorney General Patrick
Lynch said in a statement. "When a police officer commits a crime,
it erodes public trust, without which law enforcement would cease to operate
effectively. With his immediate resignation from the force, his admission
of guilt, and today's sentence, the cloud that he placed over the Middletown
Police Department can be removed."
Braley, 42, was an 11-year
veteran of the force when on May 16 he committed the heist. His motive?
As the Journal put it, "He told detectives that he took the drugs because
he was upset with his superiors and wanted them to be held accountable
for the theft."
In addition to the committing
a prohibited act charge, Braley was also charged with larceny and obstructing
a police officer. This writer has never heard of any other police
officer being charged with obstructing a police officer. Way to go,
Officer Braley.
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Issue #366
, 12/10/04
The
Perry
Fund
and
DRCNet
Go
to
Boston
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DRCNet
Interview:
Whitney
Taylor,
Executive
Director,
Drug
Policy
Forum
of
Massachusetts
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New
York
Legislators
Cut
Some
Rockefeller
Sentences,
But
Real
Reform
Remains
Elusive
|
Hurwitz
Fate
in
Hands
of
Jury
|
Rep.
Souder
Urges
FDA
Review
of
Medical
Marijuana,
Provokes
Battle
of
The
"Dear
Colleague"
Letters
on
Capitol
Hill
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No
Justice
for
Kenneth
Walker
--
Police
Shooter
No-Billed
By
Grand
Jury
|
Newsbrief:
Calling
Drug
Raid
on
Hell's
Angels
an
"Attack,"
Judge
Throws
Out
Evidence
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Newsbrief:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cop
Story
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Newsbrief:
Peruvian
Coca
Growers
Mobilizing
Again
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Newsbrief:
Hawaii
Medical
Marijuana
Arrests
Settled
With
$30,000
Pay-Out
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Newsbrief:
Jimson
Weed
Now
Illegal
in
Oklahoma
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in
History
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