Looks like decades of Democrat rule have taken their toll on a once-great city - from Baltimore, MD station WMAR:
New Book Details Activities of Corrupt Baltimore City Police Squad
The rise and fall of the Baltimore City Police Department's "Gun Trace Task Force" is almost too unbelievable to be true.
The now-former police officers are all in federal prison, when just a few years ago they were winning commendations from the police department's leaders.
Former "City Paper" collaborators Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg, have written a new book called “I Got a Monster.” They call the Gun Trace Task Force "America's most corrupt police squad.”
And a bit more:
Soderberg and Woods compiled years of illegal car stops, blatant burglaries of homes, thefts of 10's of thousands of dollars in cash and drugs, and lies about working overtime, into a devastating narrative.
“When you put it in order you start to understand the magnitude of it in the way you don't always understand when you're just sort of saying 'Today this happened; today this happened; today this happened,’” Woods said.
Members of the GTTF operated without fear of being arrested themselves, especially after the death of Freddie Gray back in 2015. Gray died after being arrested in West Baltimore. Six other city police officers were arrested, and violence across Baltimore City spiked:
“That's when these Task Force officers really took advantage of the fact that there was a lot of chaos, a lot of shootings, a lot of violence,” Soderberg said. “If they could help get those guns off the street that they could get on a desk for a news camera, then they could kind of get away with all this other stuff.”
The last time Baltimore had a Republican mayor was from 1963 to 1967. It is interesting to note that the name D'Alesandro is listed twice - from here:
Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro III (born July 24, 1929) – known as Tommy D'Alesandro – is an American attorney and former politician who was Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971. He is the brother of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and son of former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., who served from 1947 to 1959.
Now we knows where she gets her corruption - a long established Baltimore political family.
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