“On a per capita basis,” Kline writes, “Tulsa far surpasses cities notorious for misconduct, such as Los Angeles, New York, Detroit and Philadelphia.”
“The Tulsa Police Department is arguably the most embattled police force in the country,” Mason writes. “Rocked by a recent corruption scandal that has so far resulted in the dismissal or reduction of 32 criminal cases, at a taxpayer cost expected to run into the millions, the TPD is ensnared in an epic legal mess.”
http://thislandpress.com/05/26/2011/misconduct-city-an-investigative-report/Trial starts this week....nyet?
In Russia, Prisons for Police Thrive
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
NIZHNY TAIGIL, Russia — Like a scene from a felon’s daydream, all the
inmates at a prison compound here in western Russia — some 2,000 of
them — are former policemen, prosecutors, tax inspectors, customs
agents and judges.
Most of the day, they mill about, glum-faced, dressed in prison
clothes. The only visible hints of the policemen’s former employment
are the occasional buzz cuts.
Russian penitentiary authorities offered a rare tour of this
specialized penal colony recently with an eye to demonstrating that
these inmates receive no privileges.
In some ways, the officials proved their point. At least as far as
accommodations go, the prison is as grim as most. Inside the walls of
unpainted concrete slabs, barbed wire slashes the prison yards into
zones for those doing hard time and minor offenders. And like the men
and women they put behind bars, former police officers here live in
rough-hewn brick barracks, toil in a workshop and eat boiled buckwheat
and cabbage.
But the tour of the prison, Correctional Colony 13, also underscored a
point that the authorities might not have intended to highlight: most
of the inmates are here for work-related infractions, from accepting
bribes to attacking suspects.
As Andrei V. Shumilov, a former detective, said of his conviction for
beating a suspect with his fists during questioning: “I was
investigating a crime, and I committed a crime myself.”
By way of justification, he mumbled that the man had suffered only
“damage to soft tissue.”
More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/world/europe/29prisons.html