NAACP, community leaders team up to solve BRPD corruption fallout for wrongfully charged
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BATON ROUGE - Community leaders are coming together to hold city leaders accountable for the damage caused by the Baton Rouge Police Department s corrupt narcotics unit.
The district attorney s office dropped over 700 drug charges after uncovering misconduct and dishonesty within BRPD s narcotics division, but those charges are still showing up in court records.
A typical expungement cost rings in at about $400 with a small portion going to the clerk of court and the district attorney, and majority of the money going to state police. With about 100 people connected to the hundreds of charges, it totals to about $40,000 to pay for the records to be wiped.
Planted Drugs, Stolen Evidence, Arrested Cops, Trumped Up Charges: Hundreds of Cases Dismissed After Black Baton Rouge Narcotics Officer Reports Corruption In His Own Unit
More than 700 criminal cases have been thrown out and local prosecutors say hundreds more may be tainted after corruption was recently exposed in the Baton Rouge Police Department Narcotics Division.
An officer at the center of the scandal has been arrested twice, four high-ranking narcotics officers have been reassigned to different divisions, and the department is leading a criminal investigation into the drug unit’s possible wrongdoing.
According to WBRZ, the Baton Rouge TV station that broke news of the brewing scandal, narcotics officers planted drugs, made stops without probable cause, and targeted random Black and brown people for trumped-up charges as part of an arrest quota mandated by the division’s supervisors.