Jim Cabezas may have set out to write his new memoir thinking that readers would love hearing how he helped bring councilmen, state lawmakers and other public officials to justice who were taking bribes, stealing millions from school funds and coercing police offices to conceal their sexual escapades.

But the long-serving chief investigator for the Office of the State Prosecutor was also a Baltimore cop in the 1970s.

Readers have been riveted by his frank descriptions of the department’s racism and baked-in corruption 40-plus years ago, noticing how much it resembles the BPD’s scandals of today.

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