We need sting operations for politicians
Picture this: an officer with the NYPD gets called to a crime scene. “You’re the first to arrive there,” he’s told by the dispatcher. “Don’t touch anything. We just need you to babysit the location, to secure it, until the main team of investigators arrive.”
All he needs to do is go inside and sit tight. No brain cells required.
He walks up the stairs to the crime scene and finds 20 grand of cash sitting on the table, along with a few bags of cocaine, waiting to be packaged for sale. Nobody from law enforcement has been there before, so nobody knows what’s supposed to be there and what isn’t. Looking around to make sure nobody’s watching, the cop pockets $6,000.
“My bosses will be happy enough that I’ve recovered $14,000,” he tells himself. “And nobody will ever know about the rest.”
Except there’s one problem. The “crime scene” is a set-up. It’s a sting operation, an elaborately developed test — and this officer just failed it badly. The cash was real, but the drug dealers weren’t. Too bad for him. He was stupid enough to take the bait. Internal affairs just reeled in a crooked cop…
