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NYPD Narcotics Cop: Officers Routinely Planted Drugs on Innocents

HeadlineOct 14, 2011

A former New York City Police Department narcotics detective has testified officers commonly planted drugs on innocent people in order to meet arrest quotas. Stephen Anderson made the disclosure at the corruption trial of another officer. Anderson says the practice was so widespread that it came “from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators.”

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