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Gun-Running Ex-Police Chief Sentenced to Probation

Even if you're caught putting murder machines into the streets, having a badge can go a long way in the court of law, as one village police chief found out.

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D.J. Byrnes
Jun 07, 2022
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This weekend I watched HBO’s We Own This City, a dramatized miniseries about the corrupt Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force and the federal government’s inability to initiate a consent decree after the uprisings in the wake of the killing of Freddie Gray.

There is a book of the same name which is better and more fact…

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