Florida Police Chief arrested for urging officers to make false arrests

[southernhybrid]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/us/florida-police-officer-false-arrests.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&action=click&contentCollection=us&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=sectionfront

According to the document, Chief Atesiano “was so focused on having a 100 percent clearance rate that he was enlisting his officers to make ‘bad’ arrests and to harass people of color who were seen anywhere within the city.”
Troubled by the unethical behavior, Officer Fernandez sent a letter to the city manager about the bad arrests, then worked with state and federal investigators, his lawyer said. He later told them that Chief Atesiano “via his underlings, would use a specific code meant to alert officers that a person of color was seen in the city and that they needed to be stopped and confronted.”

Three officers have already been sentences and the chief is awaiting sentencing. It does make me wonder if it had not been for the whistle blower, would these injustices ever been discovered? And is this type of thing common in other police departments?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

In before, this is why democrats are going to lose--because they are making issues out of "identity politics."