Our [community] centre was destroyed. ibid.
You had police officers blatantly lying in court. ibid. Balraj
Kids had their lives ruined because of the criminal prosecutions. ibid.
14 witnesses told Commander Cass they saw Blair Peach hit by a police officer. No police officer admitted seeing Peach at the time and place his injuries took place. ibid. captions
Police Protect the Fascists! Defiance: Fighting the Far Right III: The Right to Fight, protest chant
Skinheads and they were smashing up the windows … They came in the coachloads. ibid. Balraj
Walthamstow: Scientists have now confirmed that petrol was poured through the letterbox and then ignited. ibid. TV
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Back in the 70s every cop wanted out of the city. But the only cops allowed to live outside New York were transit cops. Because the transit authority was also run by Jersey and Connecticut. So these guys I knew at the 37 started pulling overtime at subway stations and got the city to declare them, ‘auxiliary transit cops’. They bought some land in Jersey, got some cheap loans from people they knew. They made themselves a place where the shit couldn’t touch ’em. That’s what they thought anyway. Cop Land 1997 starring Robert de Niro & Harvey Keitel & Sylvester Stallone & Ray Liotta & Peter Berg & Edie Falco & Victor Williams & Janeane Garofalo & Robert Patrick & Michael Rapaport & Frank Vincent & Cathy Moriarty et al, director James Mangold, opening monologue
Our minds are primitive, Berta. ibid. Gary
I’d advise you to think to yourself, hey that’s one of the good guys. ibid. Ray to young rozzer
Don’t shut me out, Ray. ibid. Gary
One door down from the next. The wives borrowing cups of sugar. It’s like you’re the Sheriff of Copland. ibid. Moe
We share a duty, do we not? If there is a stink, we must investigate. We must gather evidence because evidence makes us see the truth. Is this the stink of a criminal act or is it a turd in a bag? ibid. Moe
Mayor Suspends Investigation. ibid. newspaper headline
I’m telling you the Mob built this town for Ray. ibid. Gary
Ray had a plan and it got very fucked up. ibid.
Freddy: I look at this time and I don’t like what I see any more.
Figgsy: Who the fuck do you think you are? ibid.
This is the second floor of our notorious headquarters here in the centre of Milano, notorious following a sordid little incident which happened here a few days ago when an anarchist under interrogation on one of the upper floors fell through the window. Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, rozzer, Youtube 1.14.39/Thames TV
It’s no use trying to pull the wool over my eyes, sonny. ibid.
You said, We were all having a jolly good time and he jumped out of the window. ibid. acting judge
A little known unit of the Met was being secretly set up to crack the cycle of corruption that had infiltrated the country’s biggest police force. Amid the scandals that engulfed the early ’90s, a few brave senior police chiefs decided a new tactic was needed. A tactic that would go after those directly responsible for the corruption to catch them in the act. The Real Line of Duty I, Amazon 2024
‘In the early 1990s cases of corruption were still arising.’ ibid. Graeme McLagan
‘A senior detective was saying that he could ring up anyone at any station across London and they’d fix things. And he’d actually used the phrase, We’re a firm within a firm.’ ibid.
There were major concerns that corruption was spiralling out of control in certain pockets of London. ibid.
It was clear corruption wasn’t confined to Stoke Newington. ibid.
Many of the names were linked to the South East Regional Crime Squad. ibid.
Roger Gasper’s work with the Ghost Squad was widely acknowledged for establishing just how widespread corruption was in the Met, but it had limited success. ibid.
The decision was taken to form a new unit called CIB3. ibid.
The story of Southern Investigations [bent rozzers] begins in 1987 with the murder of Jonathan Rees’s then partner running the organisation, Daniel Morgan. Morgan was found dead with an axe in his head in a pub car park. Several people have been charged with involvement in the murder but no-one has ever been convicted. The Real Line of Duty II
The operation to catch Southern Investigations and Austin Warnes in the act was deemed an early success for CIB3 and proved that the change in strategy in countering corrupting was working. ibid.
Kevin Garner & Terry McGuinness: They admitted to a total of 19 offences of corruption stretching back to 1991, ranging from stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds to fabricating evidence. ibid.
‘Hector Harvey has basically participated in an armed robbery while is on compassionate leave from prison for a week. Couldn’t make it up.’ ibid. author
Involved in the corrupt activity was Kevin Garner who was responsible for collecting the stolen cash and sharing it with the other corrupt officers. ibid.
Several Flying Squad officers being sent down for corruption. ibid.
Their fight against corruption in the Met had only just begun. ibid.
A team of hard-drinking rogue detectives who called themselves The Groovy Gang: Robert Clark, Neil Putnam, Chris Drury. The Real Line of Duty III
‘Fleckney [big cocaine dealer] was getting tipped off … Fleckney was an informant for Clark … She was in love with Clark.’ ibid. CIB3 rozzer
It was an impossible choice for Putnam: protect his friends, or lose protection for him and his family. ibid.
‘The main way that Clark and Drury won their appeal was because Eve Fleckney flatly refused to give any kind of evidence. She withdrew her evidence entirely saying she’d been forced into it.’ ibid. author