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Police corruption is a major problem in the United States. Some police officers turn bad to make money through ripping off drug dealers and even dealing drugs themselves. Some try and cover up their own acts of brutality, murder and even torture.

Police corruption happens in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and every major U.S. city and is conducted by officers of all races, creeds and colors.

Here is our list of the top 5 most corrupt U.S. police officers of all-time.

5. Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa

Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa worked for the NYPD but in reality, they worked for the mafia. Caracappa was a member of the Organized Crime Homicide Unit investigating the very people he was working for.

The two former partners were taking orders for the Lucchese crime family and served as hitmen as well as moles in the NYPD. In 2006,  Eppolito and Caracappa were convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice, extortion and eight counts of murder and conspiracy.

4.  Joseph Miedzianowski

Joseph Miedzianowski was a Chicago police officer labeled as the most corrupt cop. Miedzianowski served as both police officer and drug kingpin using his knowledge of the streets and gangs to shake down drug dealers.

For most of his 22-year career, Miedzianowski would run the Chicago Gangs Unit, while running his own drug gang at the same time. Miedzianowski would be convicted of 10 counts including drug conspiracy and racketeering in 2001.

3. David Mack And Rafael Perez

David Mack and Rafael Perez worked together for the LAPD Rampart division, but also worked for Death Row Records and were members of the Bloods gang.

Mack would receive the LAPD Medal Of Honor for killing a drug dealer who allegedly pulled a gun on him. But he would also later be  convicted of robbing a bank and be implicated in the murder of rapper, Notorious BIG.

Perez shot and framed an unarmed gang member during his tenure, and stole eight pounds of cocaine from an LAPD evidence locker.

2. Jon Burge

Jon Burge is a former Chicago Police Department detective who oversaw the torture of hundreds of Black men resulting in false confessions between 1972 and 1991.

Burge would burn suspects with radiators and cigarettes, and electrocute their testicles.

Although Burge was protected by the statute of limitations for his crimes, he was convicted for lying about the torture in January of this year.

1. Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, and Anthony Villavaso

Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, and Anthony Villavaso were members of the New Orleans police department during Hurricane Katrina. They were charged with first degree murder for killing seventeen-year-old James Brissette who was innocent and unarmed during Hurricane Katrina on the Danzinger bridge. Brisette was simply looking for shelter in the Hurricane and cops pounced on him.

Bowen, Gisevius, Faulcon, Villavaso were found guilty of falsifying reports and false prosecution in the conspiracy to cover-up the shooting and may face the death penalty.

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  • http://twitter.com/Vanity357 Vanity357

    How do you take a list that would encompass thousands of people and narrow it down to the top 5? I can count on one hand the police officers that I know that aren’t corrupt.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hevansspeedy Speedy Evans

    5 police com’on Kc u can blog better than that….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cami22P/ cami22P

    white ppl are making these forums. they probably don’t even like blacks.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/soultry-soul/ soultry-soul

    1990′s…New Orlean Cop – FBI Code Name: Shattered Shield

    Dayum, I watched this about 5 yr ago…the Black Cops were off the hook for real. Some real criminals/Big Time Drug Dealers and Killers…and stupid!

    If you have not seen this…go get it. google Kim Groves and read on how these bastird blew her head open for reporting one of them. The doc**entary show it all, hear wire taps of the fools bragging, see footage of major drug deals going down.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YKNWSCKRILWISMK4C6BWZXZ5VU Willis

    What does it matter if it’s 5, 10 or 15? Someone would say exactly what you just said if the list was top 20. We get the point that police in general are corrupt and the bad apples outweigh the good.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Tha_Nerd/ Tha_Nerd

    There are WAAAAY more corrupt cops than that. There are some being corrupt right now as we answer this.

  • http://twitter.com/Vanity357 Vanity357

    The point is that it is a pointless exercise which seems to be a trend on this blog. Carry on.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2Queens11434/ 2Queens11434

    South African scientist faces being struck off
    by Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg

    8:40PM BST 26 Sep 2011

    “Dr Wouter Basson led a covert operation – Project Coast – alleged to have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of regime opponents.

    It is also said to have planned to develop “smart” poisons lethal only to black people, contaminate the water supply with cholera and spread HIV among ANC guerillas. ..”

    The Telegraph

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7UVUVOKIQXNK46Y5DJ6H6ARECA Carl C

    Well said. I’m surprised that they didn’t mention Seattle.since Seattle Police are known murderers of Indian wood carvers and unarmed black men. I rarely go out at night, after going out a few times and was shocked to see live action that was happening right in front of me that was not on Q13 Fox News or any other news program.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Epidemy24/ Epidemy24

    Number 1 should be “Bull” Connor. He was over the police and fire departments in Birmingham, Alabama in the late 50′s and earky 60s. This man used the police department to terririze black people protesting for civil rights. He commanded them to turn their dogs on black and the fire department to hose them. He even had little kids arrested and had over 3,00 protesters arrested vowing that he would fill up the jails if he had to in order to stop the protesting. He also allowed KKK lynchings and violence to carry out with no reprecussion. He was so awful that the images of what he was doing in Birmingham made the rest of the nation aware of the need for legislation to adress racial equality in this country, and made President Kenedy address the nation about what was going on in Birmingham. He is the ultimate corrupt “lawman”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Notice ALL of these rotten rats killed Black men or were involved with Black drug dealers in the neighborhoods in their districts.

    Also notice that NONE of the Black pigs killed or beat a caucasoid!!! NONE OF THEM!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Hitler poisoned the water supply in nazi germany when he exterminated the fake khazars! This is why I call these beast ashke(nazi) khazars because they are euroPEEan germans, who went to eu(rope) to BECOME khazars!

    THE ORIGINAL BLACK HEBREW IZRAELITES are the real Hebrews, not these fake imposters!

    The u.s.a. [ununted snakes of a*****es] are doing the same to this water supply. Frances Cress Welsing had a speech and told the audience that there are chemi(kills) in the water RIGHT NOW that are turning the animals into homosexuals and this is why most Black males and fe-males are turning gay also!

    IS THIS THE REAL REASON THEY WANT US TO DRINK 8 GLASSES OF WATER PER DAY TO TURN US GAY? I drink more beer than water, and I am in perfect health. We don’t need all that fluoridated water…it’s poison!

    Just putting some meat on the bone!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    THIS ARTICLE SHOULD TAKE UP THE WHOLE SITE!

    WHITE PIGS ARE THE MOST CORRUPT PIGS ON THE PLANET! NEGROID PIGS ARE A STEP BEHIND THEM!

    NEWSFUN FORGOT ABOUT THE UPRISINGS, WHERE PIGS SHOT, BEAT AND KILLED BLACK PEOPLE. THEY FORGOT ABOUT THE FIREFIGHTERS, WHO HOSED US DOWN WITH THEIR WATER HOSES. THE FORCE WAS SO STRONG, IT BROKE SOME OF THE DEMONSTRATORS BONES AND PARALYZED THEM!!!!

    THESE BASTARDS HAVE BEEN MURDERING BLACK PEOPLE ALL THEIR DAM RACIST LIFE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/A_Virtuous_Woman/ A_Virtuous_Woman

    Now You See Why It’s Hard To Trust The Police.. 1,2,3,4,5 Mess It Up For All Of Them…Dont Like’em

  • sonya gibson

    How does drinking water turns someone gay?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NutinButThaBest/ NutinButThaBest

    wooowwwwww

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/soultry-soul/ soultry-soul

    I agree with you 100%…

    Unfortunately, the FBI does not see SPD as a threat of this nature to organize and create a CODE NAME…which is sad regarding all the news coverage they’ve had.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NutinButThaBest/ NutinButThaBest

    WTF??? Where you get this idea from?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ULXYVEVGPORXQZSPGZ63CGFHZE Delonte Rosenth

    His crazy conspiracy theory holds no water.. He just rants and rambles the craziest comical s**t I have ever seen..He is a retard for real. Nobody listens to him on this site. The dude is all alone in his crappy apt doing this all day every day. WHAT a waste of our taxpayers money right? HE should be put down. He has so much anger toward other races bc he is such a failure at life. Him and smitty are the most racist people on this site and they should just be ignored. JEALOUS HAHAHAHAHAHA

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BakkByPopularDemand/ BakkByPopularDemand

    This is BS….How do you break down ages of corruption to just a ‘top 5′??? really….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    The chemi(kills) they are putting in the water! Look it up if you don’t believe me or get a tape by Frances Cress Welsing and she will break it down for you!

    I DON’T HAVE TO LIE LIKE THAT SERPENT delonte rosenth, WHO’S AN AGENT FOR THIS SITE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Listen little white boy, you don’t know a damn thang about me. You can lie all you wish, because it doesn’t bother me. You caucasoids are known LIARS and THIEVES. You bastards hate to see the Black family as a UNIT, you hate to see the Black wo-man with a strong Black man, you hate to see Black people, who have more than you, you heathens hate to see Black people STAND up to you racist wretches, you pale thangs hate to see Black people with KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM AND TRUTH!

    GO STICK A PLUNGER UP YOUR PUNK ASS…I HATE YOU; YOU LYING PIECE OF F****T!

  • Anonymous

    I hate white people…………..and some Black one’s too!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ULXYVEVGPORXQZSPGZ63CGFHZE Delonte Rosenth

    6356 comments??? ALLLLLLL TALLLKKKK YOU P.O.S….You are just a waste of time and life.. YOU SUCK AT LIFE …YOU SON HATES YOU… NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    @delonte rosnth: I laugh at little twits like you! Like I said before, you racist crackers hate to see a Black man with his son. My son visits me damn near every day. So, don’t try to lie and get people to thinking my son hates me.YOU DON’T KNOW A DAMN THANG ABOUT ME OR MY SON! YOU HONKEYS ARE SOME SICK SERPENTS!

    just for your info, little b***h, he’s in college, has his own car, apartment, job and he’s tutoring young children in math. He’s a math whiz, which I told him when he was in college that Afrikans introduced math to the world. He also, spends time with the elderly, he’s involved in the church and he’s not walking around with his pants hanging down his ass. I taught him how to dress and it shows! IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE JEALOUS OF BECAUSE your little worthless son and daughter ain’t s**t? HUH?

    I know who you are, so don’t think you are fooling me. Your daughter is a w***e and your son is a fag, so don’t get mad at me because my son is PROSPERING, okay? You were a worthless parent and your wife was an ex-w***e. The reason your little animals turned out the way they did!

    Now what do you have to say, you lying f****t! THE TRUTH HAS BEEN TOLD!

    NEXT I’LL REVEAL YOUR NAME! LOL, little b***h!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    PROBABLY? ALL CRACKERS HATE BLACK PEOPLE!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    There are high levels of chromium in the water. There are people in the medical field, who think the reason why we have so many gays and girly boy emo types in this country is because of the hormones in our drinking water.

    There are female hormones in our drinking water due to the large number of women taking birth control, then pissing out their hormone laden urine, that ends up in our ground water. Also, high levels of fluoride is killing people from tap water! FLOURIDE is used in ROACH POWDER! Look this info up for yourself! Also, CHROMIUM is in the water, which cause health problems and body changes!

    A carcinogen, hexavalent chromium, said to be in US tap water in 31 cities

    Millions of Americans are drinking water contaminated with the carcinogenic chemical that came to national attention in the 2000 feature film Erin Brockovich. Laboratory tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG) found hexavalent chromium, or chromium-6, in the drinking water of 31 of 35 selected U.S. cities. Among those with the highest levels were Norman, Okla.; Honolulu; and Riverside, Calif.

    Despite mounting evidence of the contaminant’s toxic effects, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not set a legal limit for chromium-6 in tap water and does not require water utilities to test for it. Hexavalent chromium is commonly discharged from steel and pulp mills as well as metal-plating and leather-tanning facilities. It can also pollute water through erosion of natural deposits.
    The authoritative National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has said that chromium-6 in drinking water shows “clear evidence of carcinogenic activity” in laboratory animals, increasing the risk of gastrointestinal tumors. Just last October, a draft review by the EPA similarly found that ingesting the chemical in tap water is “likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” Other health risks associated with exposure include liver and kidney damage, anemia and ulcers.

    In response to the NTP study and others, California last year became the first state to propose setting a public health goal for chromium-6 in drinking water of 0.06 parts per billion (ppb) – setting the stage for establishing a statewide enforceable limit.

    The hazards of chromium-6 contamination first came to light in 1993, when Brockovich helped build a now-famous class action lawsuit against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) for polluting the water supply of Hinkley, Calif. The suit eventually led to a $333 million settlement.
    “Every single day, pregnant mothers in Norman, Oklahoma, school children in Madison, Wisconsin, and many other Americans are drinking water laced with this cancer-causing chemical,” said EWG senior scientist Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D. “If the EPA required local water utilities to test for hexavalent chromium, the public would at least know if it was present in their local water. Without mandatory tests and a safe legal limit that all utilities must meet, many of us will continue to swallow some quantity of this carcinogen every day.”

    “It is sometimes difficult to understand why I still have to warn the public about the presence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water 23 years after my colleagues and I first sounded the alarm,” said Brockovich. “This report underscores, in fairly stark terms, the health risks that millions of Americans still face because of water contamination.”
    In 25 cities tested by EWG, concentrations of chromium-6 in tap water were higher than California’s proposed public health limit. In Norman, Okla. (population 90,000), the level was more than 200 times the state’s proposed safe level.

    EWG’s investigation is the broadest publicly available survey of hexavalent chromium contamination of drinking water to date. The 31 cities shown to have chromium-polluted tap water draw from utilities that collectively serve more than 26 million people. In California, the only state that requires testing for chromium-6, utilities have reported detecting the compound in tap water supplied to more than 31 million people, according to an EWG analysis of data from the state water agency.
    Concerned consumers can dramatically reduce the amount of the chemical in their drinking water by investing in a reverse osmosis filtration system for the home. There is no legal limit for hexavalent chromium in bottled water either, so consumers cannot assume it is free of the contaminant.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000041466942 Patricia Donalds

    Body cameras AND a consentual polygraphing program to fight police misconduct and corruption. Not only on hire, but every 5yrs and for internal affairs investigations.
    It only takes one good man with the vision, courage and integrity to lead by good example.
    The world will follow his lead.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VDHUOCR5E4XE7GKLUON42MV7UE KEVIN

    Honorable Mention

    Google “Reddit Bad Cop No Donut”

  • Anonymous

    Have to agree with you on this one, they where just the sacraficial lambs. “Actions reflect leadership”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_5Q2C3RSTYLJD4C75BTT72ZIAFY Old

    What’s wrong with being gay? Or “girly”? There are still (more than) enough new people being born to replace the previous generation, and there always will be. What’s sick is trying to shame men who are naturally attracted to men (like Leonardo da Vinci, say, or oh I dunno Bayard Rustin, it’s been happening forever, you just don’t realize how many there were because they could rarely be open about it) into hurting themselves, killing themselves, and lying to women who could be in a real relationship instead.

    There is nothing wrong with men having typically “feminine” characteristics, as long as they like themselves and other people. Men who think otherwise are people who believe that being like a woman is the worst, weakest, suckiest thing in the world, and I feel sorry for their daughters. (Of course, if they really really really hate effeminate and/or gay men, they’re probably self-hating victims themselves.)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    GO STICK A HOT IRON OF MOLTEN STEEL UP YOUR ASS AND SEE HOW THAT FEELS!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jdubb_773/ jdubb_773

    Chicago cops making this list twice? Not surprised at all…

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/HLFODRCE2YXZXAAMCYYIMMWF5Q Jackie Knight

    SPD gives me the creeps. They are getting away with murder.

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