In a new memoir by a former Baltimore City police officer, the racism and corrupt practices he describes sound like excerpts from the latest indictment or scathing federal report:
- The 1,250 bags of heroin “missing” from police headquarters.
- The drug “busts” where no one is busted (“the officer kept the cash and let the driver keep the drugs”).
- The officers who gun their engines at African-American pedestrians and “break out in laughter” and racial slurs when the victim jumps.
But the incidents described in James I. Cabezas’ book, “Eyes of Justice,” took place in Baltimore over 40 years ago – long before the 2017 Gun Trace Task Force prosecution or the 2016 U.S. Justice Department report.
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