Allegedly juiced-up Boston cops under investigation

By adamg - 3/12/08 - 8:19 am

The Globe injects the news:

As many as a dozen officers have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury investigating steroid use and after-hours parties in the Boston Police Department - an offshoot of a probe that led to the convictions of three patrolmen last year, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the case.

Earlier:
18 years for corrupt Boston cop.
Somebody in the Boston Police Department stole a lot of drugs.
Police commissioner: Swift, forceful, aggressive action against any police corruption.
Corrupt cop to the klink.
When crooked cops testify against other crooked cops.

Comments

More than just cops trying to get buff

By adamg - 3/12/08 - 1:30 pm
#1

David Bernstein, who's been writing about this sort of stuff at the Phoenix for awhile now, cautions:

... Once the identities of the steroid-buying officers becomes public, the city is likely to get hit with a heavy round of litigation from citizens whose claims to have been roughed up by those cops were ignored; those claims will look very different, in retrospect, when juiced-up cops were involved. ...

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