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Gone Bad at the Border: Money and sex are being used by smugglers to turn good officers bad (with Video)
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Gone-Bad-at-the-B...
There is a link in the text to bring up the video. Shows a highly trusted Border Patrol agent turning off the license plater reader at his station to
let an SUV full of illegals enter through his lane at Otay. This isn't good and the FBI says in the article San Diego has the highest number of
corrupt officer cases. Then again- it probably has the most staffing too.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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surfer jim
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Mordida has now come to our side of the border.
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tjBill
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The article gives a good explanation of the problem,
"FBI agents say the corruption cases continue to climb each year, in part because there has been a dramatic increase in hiring. In fact, the border
workforce has literally doubled in the past few years. "
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
Mordida has now come to our side of the border. |
It always has, theres a lot of corruption at customs and border patrol. They just keep it quiet.
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Bajahowodd
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Why should anyone be surprised? Look around the world. Corruption is everywhere. It must be in our DNA. There has been a somewhat myopic view that
supports the idea that we are the good guys. Of course, the US has done many wonderful things over time. But, at the end of the day, every individual
is just that.
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bajaguy
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Same thing happened in Detroit when they lowered the police recruit entry standards to have a "more diverse" workforce
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
Mordida has now come to our side of the border. |
It's nothing new. There's been open reports of this crap in the past.
These people are traitors, just as the military would classify them. They should be shot, and might be if the military was on the border, where they
should be.
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woody with a view
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no one is innocent......
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody in ob
no one is innocent...... |
Sad, but true. Is there anything really "GOOD" left?
The older I get, the more I withdraw from it all.
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Bajahowodd
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I feel your pain. Just wonder if it's more about being old and in the way. Seriously, times change as do people and the things they do. I can harken
back to 1965, for example, and think about how awful certain things were. But, at the same time, in retrospect, much was very good. It's like when my
parents scolded me for listening to music that was so foreign to them. I grow up and do the same to my children. Go figure.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
old and in the way |
I'm playing that album/CD as I read your post. Very weird.
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mtgoat666
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody in ob
no one is innocent...... |
Sad, but true. Is there anything really "GOOD" left?
The older I get, the more I withdraw from it all. |
law enforcement has always had it's share of bad. always has. always will. nothing suprising in the news about border patrol
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mtgoat666
law enforcement has always had it's share of bad. always has. always will. nothing suprising in the news about border patrol
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First thing in your whole entire life that you have said that makes sense.
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pascuale
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there are corrupt Border Patrol Agents also, but the men and woman who work at the POE's are not Border Patrol, they are Customs Agents. The man in
the video was a customs official.
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Barry A.
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Yes, corruption happens within the LE community and I occasionally heard about it thru the rumor mill, but in my 30 year career in Federal LE (+ l
year as a San Diego cop in the beginning) I never encountered it, either as a "grunt" or as a Station Chief/Chief Ranger, Area Manager, and as as the
only BLM Ranger on the Western Sierra Front out of Folsom, CA for 5 years... And 13 of those 30 years were on the Border at El Centro, CA as Chief
Ranger then Branch Chief.
So corruption certainly could not have been rampant. I have been retired since early '96 and have no idea what has happened since.
Barry
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CortezBlue
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
Mordida has now come to our side of the border. |
More Did Ay
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