Planted Drugs, Stolen Evidence, Arrested Cops, Trumped Up Charges: Hundreds of Cases Dismissed After Black Baton Rouge Narcotics Officer Reports Corruption In His Own Unit
More than 700 criminal cases have been thrown out and local prosecutors say hundreds more may be tainted after corruption was recently exposed in the Baton Rouge Police Department Narcotics Division.
An officer at the center of the scandal has been arrested twice, four high-ranking narcotics officers have been reassigned to different divisions, and the department is leading a criminal investigation into the drug unit’s possible wrongdoing.
According to WBRZ, the Baton Rouge TV station that broke news of the brewing scandal, narcotics officers planted drugs, made stops without probable cause, and targeted random Black and brown people for trumped-up charges as part of an arrest quota mandated by the division’s supervisors.
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D A Drops 640 Drug Charges in Baton Rouge Due to Alleged Police Corruption
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