NHPD Narcotics Unit


	NHPD Narcotics Unit

ghgroenewold

10-9-2007 11:44 AM

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corruption, police, abuse, crime, drugs, drug war

ghgroenewold says:

More from the NHPD Narc Unit - another part of Connecticut's culture of corruption.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa26b7ff-4bfb-466f-9225-5635a6d53fc8/37623A0F-F2EF-4934-AE57-8AD63065B2F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/10/narc_unit_retur.php" href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/10/narc_unit_retur.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newhavenindependent.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/10/narc_unit_retur.php"><P>In between the scandals of 1970s and 2007, the "War on Drugs" failed to shut down New Haven's narcotics trade. But the cops racking up the arrests continued racking up controversy. At times they racked up the most overtime in the department, to the tune of six figures. Prisons filled with young, mostly black and Latino males. A separate FBI report concluded that a city cop who busted dealers was actually working in cahoots with their boss and framing them for crimes. (<A href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021227094821/www.newhavenadvocate.com/articles/copandkiller.html">Click here</A> to read that sordid tale.)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/10/narc_unit_retur.php"><P>You could blame the individual cops. You could, as the experts and city leaders are also doing,  blame a system with inadequate safeguards. Or you could think of a new way to combat drugs rather than spending millions on chasing down street dealers and locking them up.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/10/narc_unit_retur.php"><P>"To be effective, narcotics investigators often shave the corners of the Constitution, state laws, and their own departmental procedures," Rosenzweig wrote. <A href="http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18819393&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7581&rfi=6">Click here</A> to read his full piece.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/37623A0F-F2EF-4934-AE57-8AD63065B2F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>