{"id":17199,"date":"2018-10-03T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17199"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:23:21","slug":"the-gang-within-a-baltimore-police-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17199","title":{"rendered":"The Gang Within: A Baltimore Police Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"84.4673267327\">\n<p>It&#8217;s been three years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/programmes\/faultlines\/2015\/06\/baltimore-rising-150613140752219.html\">Baltimore erupted<\/a> in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city&#8217;s police department and the community.<\/p>\n<p>The protests captured national attention &#8211; prompting a federal investigation &#8211; and several high-profile efforts at reform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"QuoteContainer\">\n<table class=\"Skyscrapper_Body in-article-item quote\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"3.5\">\n<tr readability=\"11.5\">\n<td readability=\"12\">\n<p>This police department had a Viking-like mentality. Police officers were told to go out and get arrests, get guns, get drugs &#8230; and their worth was judged by the amount of those things that they brought back to the table<\/p>\n<p class=\"quoted-author\">Kevin Davis<span>, former BPD Commissioner<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now a new scandal is threatening to undermine those efforts, raising questions about the depth of police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/issues\/corruption.html\">corruption<\/a> in Baltimore, and the institutional forces that allow corrupt officers to remain on the street.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fault Lines<\/em> returns to Baltimore as new details emerge about an elite plain-clothes police unit that, for years, doubled as a criminal gang &#8211; robbing residents, planting evidence, and sending countless innocent people to jail.<\/p>\n<p>The unit operated with impunity in part because of the way police complaints are investigated.<\/p>\n<p>In Baltimore &#8211; like many other cities &#8211; if a police officer is accused of wrongdoing, the complaint is investigated behind closed doors by the police department&#8217;s own Internal Affairs Division.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fault Lines<\/em> investigates how this latest police scandal once again places Baltimore at the centre of a national debate over how and whether police departments can be held accountable to the communities they police.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been three years since Baltimore erupted in a series of protests over police violence, exposing deep divisions between the city&#8217;s police department and the community. The protests captured national attention &#8211; prompting a federal investigation &#8211; and several high-profile efforts at reform. This police department had a Viking-like mentality. Police officers were told to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}