AndPublished reports show that a total of 256 officers identified for firing between 1991 and 1994 were reinstated simply because police management took too long to get through the process of firing them...While Chief Thomas was paying full salary to sworn officers he dared not place on the street but could not fire due to mismanagement, his warrant squad could not work warrants because they could not afford paper to print out warrant lists.
From one of the amici briefs supporting Heller http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parke ... dation.pdfIn the early 1990s, 201 officers were arrested on charges running from shoplifting to rape and murder. One out of every 14 graduates in the academy classes of 1989 and 1990 would subsequently be arrested. The problems became so dire that the District had a list of 185 MPD Officers so tainted by corruption that prosecutors would not put these officers on the stand. One proud new cadet received news of his acceptance to the MPD Academy while in jail in Prince George’s County while awaiting trial on drug distribution charges.
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