Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd

I've never heard a story like this in my life. Story of drug trafficking, bribery, kidnapping, and even murder. Which earned you the nickname of America's dirtiest cop, and I want to know everything. Okay, but let's just be clear. If you choose to have a conversation with me about this, you're gonna hear things. That you won't like. Let me just say this, being a New York cop was the greatest job in the world, but it's not built for somebody to come in and be the knight in shining armor.

You're working minimum wage. Civilians are against you and you're directly told not to make drug arrests. Why? Oh, because they got a budget to manage. And the average amount of overtime for one crack arrest was eighteen hours. So that leads to the streets becoming unwieldy. So what happens is a guy like me, who's entrepreneurial spirit, shows up. And says there's a way to control this. I can't arrest them, so I tax them. And that escalated. Greed is powerful, bruh. But what happens then? You become God.

I was making more than the president of the United States by protecting one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in New York. But I was losing control and I behave the face of New York City's corruption problem. People want to be dead. And then in nineteen ninety-two you were arrested and you admitted hundreds of crimes. But what about your family at this point? You know. That was tough. Mike, we spoke to

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