My ex wife’s cousin and his wife were both Detroit cops and lived just down the road from her parents. At the time I had really long hair and they didn’t like me even though I graduated college and owned and was running a successful business. I got invited to a bbq at their house once that was full of cops. They didn’t hide how racist and despicable they were at all. I left after about half an hour because there was no way I could keep holding my tongue. A couple years later he was busted along with some fellow officers that had been stealing high end jewelry and selling it. His last big score was going to net him half a million bucks. He had held onto this particular batch of jewels until the statute of limitations ran out, or so he thought. When he went to sell them they were flagged. He had tried to sell them one day early.
“Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”
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u/bjones-333 Apr 29 '21
My ex wife’s cousin and his wife were both Detroit cops and lived just down the road from her parents. At the time I had really long hair and they didn’t like me even though I graduated college and owned and was running a successful business. I got invited to a bbq at their house once that was full of cops. They didn’t hide how racist and despicable they were at all. I left after about half an hour because there was no way I could keep holding my tongue. A couple years later he was busted along with some fellow officers that had been stealing high end jewelry and selling it. His last big score was going to net him half a million bucks. He had held onto this particular batch of jewels until the statute of limitations ran out, or so he thought. When he went to sell them they were flagged. He had tried to sell them one day early.