Narcotics Pushing Cop Gets 25 years,

[Stuart G]

Source: Raw Story, AP News

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Ex_cop_gets_25_years_in_drug_case_01032008.html


Former Chicago Officer Who Ripped Off Drug Dealers Gets 25 Years Behind Bars
MIKE ROBINSON
AP News
Jan 03, 2008 15:35 EST
The admitted leader of a band of Chicago police officers who ripped off drug dealers and funneled narcotics onto the city's streets was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in federal prison.

"You and your merry band essentially raped and plundered entire neighborhoods," U.S. District Judge Ronald told the former police officer, Broderick Jones, in imposing the sentence.
Jones, 36, pleaded guilty to getting information from gang members about where drugs were stashed and leading fellow officers in staging mock raids during which they confiscated the narcotics.
Instead of arresting the dealers and turning in the drugs, Jones and his fellow officers turned the narcotics over to other dealers.
After his grandmother and 16-year-old daughter took the witness stand and testified that he had always been a good family man, Jones addressed Guzman and pleaded for a lenient sentence.
"Have mercy on me," said Jones, who has been behind bars for three years. "I pray every night that God will take greed out of my heart."
Guzman said he took into consideration that Jones had a good record as a Navy aircraft mechanic in the Persian Gulf War, working on F-14 Tomcats aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal.
But the judge said Jones had taken an oath to uphold the law and had to be punished severely for his "depraved violation of this oath."


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Chicago Cops have been corrupt for so long. This piece of shit got caught stealing from gangs and reselling the stuff.
......I hope he has fun and games while in prison...

[sasquatch]

1. Oh former cops are VERY popular in prison

I hope the judge tells the officials not to give him any special protection and let the fucking wolves have him.

[MarkInLA]

3. Maybe he'll turn gay to keep his cellmates happy (n/t)

[Laughing Mirror]

4. A person is born gay, is gay or isn't, and does not "turn" gay

The kind of sex & living arrangements one sees in prison may on the surface look like same sex sex to you, but it is really just two heterosexual males having sex with each other because, being stuck in prison, they have no other choice. This is not gay sex or a gay relationship because neither of the partners is gay, and there is no love in the relationship.

[frog92969]

5. We can't know that

it's really not our fault. How could we know?

[frog92969]

6. Delete

Sorry, wrong place.

[Laughing Mirror]

8. Well unless you were actually & truly gay and had been in prison environment

you'd not have that perspective on the gay aspect of prison sex. So yeah, it would be kind of hard to know about that.

The important thing is that being gay, because it is who you are, is not something you are able to turn on and off. If you identify yourself as straight, having sex with another man (in prison) doesn't mean that you have had to "turn gay" in order to accomplish the act. Prison sex has more to do with hormones and desperation than anything to do with being gay.

[TommyO]

10. So you advocate prison rape and other violence against inmates?

[sasquatch]

11. No, but I'm a fan of poetic justice

[tomreedtoon]

2. So Vic Mackey finally takes the fall?

The mass media will still pretend that a corrupt cop can be a hero.

[frog92969]

7. Give that judge a promotion! Please!

We NEED judges like that at the very highest levels of government.

[jsmooth995]

9. this is why voting matters

Electing people we can count on to appoint good judges like this is why we need to reject the "all candidates are the same, why bother" excuses for complacency..

[High Plains]

12. Shit like this happens every week. I know; I write about it.

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