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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNewly appointed border town police chief asks FBI to investigate cops, officials
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/newly-appointed-border-town-police-chief-asks-fbi-to-investigate-cops-officials/
Comparing the police department he inherited to the New York mafia, a California police chief has called in the FBI to investigate corruption by both police officers and city officials, reports News 7 San Diego.
In a tearful press conference, a frustrated Calexico Police Chief Mike Bostic accused his predecessor, some members of his own department, and city officials of illegally trying to undermine a criminal investigation.
The council-members in conjunction with the police officers association and members of that association have used city funds and city resources to run what I would call an extortion racket, Bostic said.
Ive literally had it, Bostic said as he began to tear up as he explained that he felt compelled to bring in the FBI to handle the investigation two weeks into his tenure.
I am so grateful that the FBI is coming. And the reason they are coming is to support me, and the really good officers of this department who have put under this cloud by a few, he said. So this was literally the most disappointing day in all my years of policing, because Im the chief. This is my city. This is my community, these are my officers, so how can you be anything but depressed.
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Newly appointed border town police chief asks FBI to investigate cops, officials (Original Post)
Skidmore
Nov 2014
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Skidmore
(37,364 posts)1. kicking because it is important
Quixote1818
(28,903 posts)2. This is needed all over the country! K and R
This needs to happen everywhere.
I think they will find a lot of this going on.
With so many cities under budget problems, the last thing they need is for money to not go where it is needed the most.