he job" (Stanford 64).
Another cited case involved a Chicago officer convicted of murdering a local drug dealer and stealing drugs and money from the dealer's apartment. The dealer had been killed by having his head forced into a bathtub full of water (Stanford 64). A Georgia revenue agent was found guilty of being involved in a drug-smuggling ring that had been operating for over six years (Stanford 66). A narcotics detective in Kentucky was found dead when his parachute apparently failed with sixty-five pounds of cocaine strapped around his waist (Stanford 66). These are but a few of the cases cited in the Rolling Stone article. It is significant that reports of drug related corruption among police officers occur not only in major cities like New York, Miami or Los Angeles, but also in rural areas of states such as Minnesota and Arkansas.
Furthermore, many of the cases relating police officers to drug use or drug trafficking also involve other levels of corruption, such as robbery, bribery and murder. The conclusion of the Rolling Stone articl
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