New Police Chief Talks About Cleaning Up Massive Police Corruption in Calexico, California

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FBI spokesman Darrell Foxworth said the agency is looking into alleged on-duty criminal conduct, but he won’t comment further on the investigation. Calexico’s new police chief, on the other hand, has been quite vocal about problems he’s found at the department since he took over in October. “It’s so embarrassing and humiliating; the crap that my cops have been up to,” Bostic said in an interview in December. He said leaders of the Calexico Police Officers Association — the police union — were “acting like the mob.” He said they intimidated good cops and threatened residents who presented complaints about officers.

Calexico’s former police chief was fired, and Bostic appointed, just two weeks before the FBI showed up. Bostic is a former assistant chief from the Los Angeles Police Department who’s made a name for himself doing internal cleanups after police scandals, namely, the Rodney King beating, and the Rampart corruption scandal.

Bostic said when he got to the Calexico Police Department, he found almost no real police work going on. “I have an investigation unit, the former investigation unit, that was investigating no crimes,” he said. “They were also responsible for the internal affairs investigations and they didn’t know where any of those were.”

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/jan/06/calexico-police-department-under-fire-alleged-crim/

[zeemike]

1. That is what needs to be done.

Give the job of managing the police to an honest cop and fire the dishonest ones...it is not like there is any shortage of honest people that would like to have that job.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. Next we'll hear of cops shaking down merchants for protection money.

[jakeXT]

3. good luck /nt