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Cops as crooks

By Shawn Matlock

An interesting story out of the L.A. Times discusses a former L.A.P.D. officer sentenced to 102 years in federal court for his involvement in a robbery ring in which several officers conducted bogus drug raids staged to look like legitimate police operations. Thirty-five year old William Ferguson was the latest L.A.P.D. officer to be sentenced in the robbery ring. Although the sentence imposed by United States District Judge Gary Feess was certainly high, especially in light of the alleged ring-leader's sentence of 13 years, Ferguson's background was perhaps the most interesting aspect of this case. As I read through the story, I tried to figure out just what Ferguson could have been found guilty of that warrant such an astronomical sentence, especially in comparison to others that were sentenced for the same robbery ring...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Matlock Blog on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).