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Detroit: Under cover cops arrest…under cover cops

Dangerous:

In what is being referred to as “probably the most embarrassing things seen in the department” an undercover unit disguised as drug dealers in Detroit were mistaken by another group of officers to be actual drug dealers during a raid.

Detroit chief of police James Craig made the comment about an incident that took place in which body cam footage has been recently released. Detroit’s 12th precinct on the east side sent in two undercover officers as drug dealers for some “buy and busts.” The buyers approached what they thought was a drug den, but was actually controlled by undercover police from Detroit’s 11th district.

What followed was a potentially deadly comedy of errors.  more

12 Comments on Detroit: Under cover cops arrest…under cover cops

  1. They should have quietly got the cops back out there. If done right, they would look like genuinine dealers and be trusted by criminal scum. Could have been a great deception.

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