This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
A scandal that keeps on giving in Florida, a pair of bad apple deputies in LA get their just rewards, a crooked NYPD cop gets his, too, and much, much more. Let's get to it: [image:1 align:left]In...
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A small-town Florida department run amok loses its chief -- at least temporarily -- an Alabama cop gets caught delivering weed, four South Texas cops get caught running cocaine, and a Camden, New...
View ArticleSnitch: Action Thriller With a Drug War Message [FEATURE]
Snitch is a Hollywood action thriller with a message, and it’s a message that is so far playing well with audiences and theaters across the land. The $15 million crime and justice pic starring Dwayne...
View ArticleOne Dead After Charlotte Police Stage Drug Sting on Elementary School Grounds
An undercover drug sting in the parking lot of a Charlotte, North Carolina, elementary school ended up with one person killed and one person wounded, and a community wondering why police chose that...
View ArticleNew Hampshire Cops Kill Man Fleeing Drug Sting
An undercover drug bust in a Weare, New Hampshire, shopping mall Wednesday night ended with the target of the bust shot to death as he attempted to flee. The as yet unidentified victim is the 25th...
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A probation officer gets caught growing marijuana, a task force commander is accused of stealing $90,000, more cops get nailed for spilling the beans to drug suspects, and more. Let's get to...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- January 6, 2014
Marijuana continues to suck all the air out of the room when it comes to drug policy, with news on the legalization, medical, and international fronts. The only non-marijuana-related item we have today...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- January 7, 2014
Another poll shows solid majority support for marijuana legalization, Florida's medical marijuana initiative appears to be within reach of qualifying for the ballot (if the state Supreme Court doesn't...
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Two cops go down for providing info to drug dealers, a DARE officer who ripped off the program gets a slap on the wrist, a Philly narc entangled with a snitch gets entangled with lies, and another...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- March 6, 2014
Oregon's medical marijuana dispensary regulation bill has gone back to the Senate with compromise language allowing only temporary local bans, a GOP US Senate candidate there says legalize it, Chuck...
View ArticleThis Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
It's a veritable cornucopia of corrupt cops this week. Major corruption scandals wind down in the Chicago suburbs and the Rio Grande Valley, LA deputies get popped planting guns in a dispensary, a...
View ArticleATF's Operation Gideon Raises Questions of Fairness, Justice, and Race [FEATURE]
Special to Drug War Chronicle by Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigate@gmail.comPart I of a series on the ATF's Operation Gideon, targeting inner city "bad guys" with drug house robbery stings[image:1...
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A Tennessee police chief gets caught misbehaving, so does a strung out Pennsylvania deputy, and a San Diego husband and wife cop team go down for dealing. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In...
View ArticleFlorida Man Killed in SWAT Raid Over Small-Time Marijuana Sales
A Tampa, Florida, man was shot and killed by members of a SWAT team executing a search warrant over small-time marijuana sales on May 27. Jason Westcott, 29, becomes the 25th person to die in US...
View ArticleChronicle AM -- July 16, 2014
The House okays marijuana banking, DC decriminalizes tomorrow, DC expands its medical marijuana program, Miami-Dade taxpayers pay for a particularly heinous killer drug raid, a lot of states did...
View ArticleChronicle AM--August 12, 2014
Everybody must be at the beach, because it's pretty quiet on the drug reform front. But Philly faces a class action lawsuit over asset forfeiture, the DEA gets caught wasting taxpayer money, and...
View ArticleChronicle AM: UMass Snitch Policy Review, Baby Bou Bou SWAT Grand Jury, More...
Medical marijuana news from several states today, the Baby Bou Bou SWAT raid case is before a grand jury, UMass examines its student snitch policy, DA candidates in Houston are fighting over drugs, and...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Bad Cops in CO, CT MedMJ, VA Decrim Bill, WA Drug...
We have a couple of disturbing Colorado police stories, a marijuana decrim bill will be filed in Virginia, and a drug decrim one in Washington state, Connecticut patients seek to expand the list of...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Deadly Tampa Snitch Culture; Columbia, MO, SWAT Raid Hack...
The Tampa Bay Tribune has an explosive expose of the police-snitch culture there, a revenge hack attack on Columbia, Missouri; Michigan's governor signs a welfare drug test bill, and more. Let's get to...
View ArticleChronicle AM: OR Marijuana Moves, No More UMass Snitches, Suboxone...
Oregon marijuana regulators are going on a listening tour while consumers get organized, a Minnesota Indian reservation ponders producing medical marijuana, UMass ends its student snitch program, and...
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