Corrupt NYPD Cops Suspected of Robbing, Torturing Drug Dealers

101308cpr.jpgExplosive accusations are being leveled against two NYPD cops, one active and one retired, who allegedly participated in at least 100 robberies of drug dealers, netting more than 100 kilos of coke. The duo are part of a crew that's been named in federal indictments in Brooklyn. The Daily News reports that the cops would change the collar brass on their uniforms to disguise their precincts when they kidnapped drug dealers and took them to "remote areas," where they'd torture them to find out where they were hiding their cash and drugs, which the crew would later resell. Two defendants who worked with the unidentified officers "applied a pair of pliers to one victim's testicles, threatening to squeeze the pliers if the victim did not talk." U.S. Attorney Andrea Goldbarg last month promised additional charges and the arrest of the two cops, who, apparently, have not yet been taken into custody.

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Not guilty by reason of my not caring for drug dealers. Grind them up and use them as fertilizer for all I care.

"applied a pair of pliers to one victim's testicles, threatening to squeeze the pliers if the victim did not talk."

Amateurs. The Chinese have been using electric shocks to the testicles for years yielding better results.

yeah who cares. Drug dealers. Guess you should kinda prepare for that shit when you decide to become a low life drug dealer :\

The cops took the drugs -- they be the drug dealers now.

martin scorcese will make this movie in 3 years. It will be called infernal affairs, oh wait.

it's called supply and demand. drug dealers supply the supply so to speak. nothing wrong with that. a positive response is why the demand for drugs.


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This would be a better story if the cops hadn't gone on to resell the drugs.

All you see in the news is corruption these days.

Sad state of affairs.

Why, my dear friends, do you think the cops bust potheads but let the coke flow? It's really good business for them. They're like the pharmaceutical industry: there's no money in curing anything, but make a deadly disease into a chronic condition and, Kerrrching!

whats the story here? so far it all sounds standard

Sounds like the crooked cops in that movie from the 90's "The Professional" with Gary Oldman and Jean Reno.

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