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Colorado's breakdown was one of the worst in the history of U.S. law enforcement-and Denver furnishes a case history demanding study by every U.S. community. How did Denver's cop corruption start, and how did it spread...
Working with such corrupt veterans, the rookie cop would be carefully introduced to petty grafting: cadging free meals in the local restaurants, accepting daily handouts of a couple of packs of cigarettes-for resale-from bartenders on his beat. Then there were the more advanced lessons in stealing from drunks. Says Patrolman Bobbie Whaley, 32, who became one of the most skillful of Denver's police safecrackers: "A drunk, if he had dough on him, never had it when he got out of jail. If the bartender didn't roll him, the cops did. If the arresting officer...
WHEN I come on the department, I had no intention whatsoever of being crooked. I wouldn't have took a nickel if it was lying in front of me. I wanted to be a good cop." Unhappily for Patrolman Gerald Sanford, it was hard to be a good cop in Denver; as of last week he and 42 other policemen or former cops had been implicated in more than 200 safecrackings over the past decade, with a total take of at least $250,000. The rottenness spread beyond Denver. In suburban counties surrounding the city, sheriffs and a score...
Code of Dishonor. Among Denver's cops there was a code of dishonor that prevented the honest policeman from informing on his criminal companions. The cop who reported to his superiors found himself ostracized. More often than not, he found himself stripped of privileges, walking a boondock beat-or harried out of a job. Even before he turned to active crime, Jerry Sanford investigated a supermarket safecracking, found a night stick on the floor. "I picked it up and put it in my car. I'm not going to fink...
...police on both sides were exchanging gunshots as well as curses and tear gas. Each day brought new incidents. One evening, two young East Berliners on an apartment-house rooftop tried to escape by jumping into the net of West Berlin firemen on the street below. But East Berlin cops dashed up to head them off, began shooting. West Berlin police fired back, wounding a Communist cop. Then, from the darkness above, a body came hurtling down; one of the escapers had leaped for the net, screaming "Freiheit!" (freedom). He missed the net by twelve feet and died...