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07. Apr 2006

An offer they can't refuse

 
I dette tilfælde drejer det sig om et tilbud om ny bopæl til de involverede i et af de lidt grovere tilfælde af korruption:
Two highly decorated former New York detectives have been convicted of moonlighting as hitmen for the mafia in one of the most sensational cases of police corruption in the city's history.

Louis Eppolito, 57, and Steven Caracappa, 64, could get life in prison for their roles in eight murders committed between 1986 and 1990 while they were simultaneously on the payroll of both the New York Police Department and Luchese crime family underboss Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso.

Federal prosecutor Daniel Wenner described the case as "the bloodiest, most violent betrayal of the badge this city has ever seen."

Prosecutors said the two men carried out two hits themselves - after pulling the victims over in traffic stops - and delivered up some of the other victims to the Mafia to be killed.
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The two officers also supplied Casso with inside information on law enforcement interest in the mob, prosecutors said. Casso was said to have referred to the two men as his "crystal ball."
Og det er da godt, man har fanget to af de værste. Den egentlige korruption i den engelske betydning af ordet, det vil sige "råddenskab" - nemlig politikorpsets os-mod-dem-mentalitet og heraf følgende brutalitet og jernhårde zero tolerance-politik, som gør det OK at "tage lidt for hårdt fat" eller "forsyne sig" i de hjem, hvor man anholder folk - og hermed korrumperer og åbner op for den mere systematiske korruption, som viser sig i sager som denne.

Link til artikel om sagen hos Al-Jazeera.

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