{"id":20542,"date":"2010-09-22T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20542"},"modified":"2010-09-22T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T12:35:59","slug":"dc-cop-caught-in-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20542","title":{"rendered":"DC Cop caught in drug case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be clear right at the beginning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/sep\/21\/dc-cop-is-named-in-drug-case\/\">this is not representative of the DC police<\/a> force. I&#8217;ve known good Metro officers and I&#8217;ve seen DC Police who do their jobs as well as any police department. However, in many cases, hiring for the Metro Police Department is nothing more than a jobs program;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officer Tamara McGuire, a three-year Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer assigned to the 2nd District until she was placed on administrative leave in May, lived with co-defendant Arthur Elliott III and their young child with &#8220;full knowledge of Mr. Elliott&#8217;s drug dealing activities,&#8221; according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She acted as lookout and warned Elliott of police presence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How does someone like this get past the initial screening process? A single mother with a drug-dealing boyfriend. <\/p>\n<p>Like I said, there are good cops in DC, but back a few years ago, when Chief Ramsey tried to call a police emergency to react to criminal activity increases, Many officers complained that they couldn&#8217;t work nights because they couldn&#8217;t find a babysitter during those hours and the unions got Ramsey to back off of law enforcement during the hours of actual criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>The new police chief has overcome some of these problems, but I have to think that this drug dealing officer was hired during Chief Cathy Lanier&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be clear right at the beginning, this is not representative of the DC &hellip; <a title=\"DC Cop caught in drug case\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20542\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DC Cop caught in drug case<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}