There are very few things in life more scary than crooked police.  After all, they are one of the highest authorities in the land.  They carry fire arms, clubs, knives, and tasers.  They can arrest, write tickets, etc. Therefore, when I hear about corruption in the police department, it sends tingles up and down my spine.  Check this out:

Four former members of a now-disbanded Chicago police unit admitted Friday to taking part in a brazen scheme in which they barged into homes and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from suspected drug dealers and others — once after withholding insulin from a diabetic man until he told them where to find the cash.

Former police officers Bart Maka, Guadalupe Salinas, Brian Pratscher pleaded guilty to felony theft, and former officer Donovan Markiewicz pleaded guilty to official misconduct, in deals that called for each to be sentenced to six months in jail and various terms of probation in exchange for their cooperation in ongoing state and federal investigations.

The four stood quietly as a prosecutor read a 17-page synopsis of what they admitted to, providing a glimpse into a rogue operation in which officers pulled over motorists without cause, grabbed their keys and stormed into their homes, falsified reports, pocketed huge sums of money and even shook each other down for money.

Those men were thugs in uniform, no different than any criminal gang on the street. They need to be jailed and never released onto the streets again. They are too dangerous. Yet, they were each given slaps on the wrist. Sad.

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