control drug trafficking, extortion. any kind of crime that you can think of that happens in the streets, it happens within the prison system. actually, gang members, their number one source in making money is through narcotics. out on the street, and the institution, they can make just as much money in the institution as they can on the street. selling narcotics leads to hits, people that have drug debts. once i came to state prison, i knew there was always a demand for drugs. miguel perez was convicted of a contract murder and drug trafficking, when he was only 15. he says he used family connections with a foreign drug cartel to rise up the ranks of his prison gang, the mexican mafia. once i opened the door with the drugs, i got recognition. by getting that recognition, i get power. with the power, i get control of whatever yard i go to. when once i control the yard, i
women from 2006 to 2010. new york police officer with 17 years on the force, well, he is now in jail. our legal analyst sunny hostin is with us to explain. we know his name, we haven t seen a picture yet, but give us a sense of who this guy is and the bizarre charges here. well, his name is jose tajada and he is a 17-year veteran of the nypd, new york city police department. he has been indicted on three accounts. and they are very, very strong charges against this particular officer. he has been accused of selling narcotics and most importantly robbing drug dealers to do so and providing a drug crew a violent drug crew, with nypd equipment so they could pretend
extortion. any kind of crime that you can think of that happens in the streets, it happens within the prison system. actually, gang members, their number one source in making money is through narcotics. out on the street, and the institution, they can make just as much money in the institution as they can on the street. selling narcotics leads to hits, people that have drug debts. once i came to state prison, i knew there was always a demand for drugs. miguel perez was convicted of a contract murder and drug trafficking, when he was only 15. he says he used family connections with a foreign drug cartel to rise up the ranks of his prison gang, the mexican mafia. once i opened the door with the drugs, i got recognition. by getting that recognition, i get power. with the power, i get control of whatever yard i go to. when once i control the yard, i control the inmates.
control drug trafficking, extortion. any kind of crime that you can think of that happens in the streets, it happens within the prison system. actually, gang members, their number one source in making money is through narcotics. out on the street, and the institution, they can make just as much money in the institution as they can on the street. selling narcotics leads to hits, people that have drug debts. once i came to state prison, i knew there was always a demand for drugs. miguel perez was convicted of a contract murder and drug trafficking, when he was only 15. he says he used family connections with a foreign drug cartel to rise up the ranks of his prison gang, the mexican mafia. once i opened the door with the drugs, i got recognition. by getting that recognition, i get power. with the power, i get control of whatever yard i go to. when once i control the yard, i control the inmates.
institution, they can make just as much money in the institution as they can on the street. selling narcotics leads to hits, people that have drug debts. once i came to state prison, i knew there was always a demand for drugs. miguel perez was convicted of a contract murder and drug trafficking, when he was only 15. he says he used family connections with a foreign drug cartel to rise up the ranks of his prison gang, the mexican mafia. once i opened the door with the drugs, i got recognition. by getting that recognition, i get power. with the power, i get control of whatever yard i go to. when once i control the yard, i control the innates there as well. miguel perez was a big drug distributor in various prisons he had been in. i think the thing that so shocked me is that so much of the drugs coming into prison can never happen, unless there s a whole group of people out there willing to assist.