The Justice Department has ended a program run by the DEA that paid bounties airport and airline staff who fingered people that the DEA would steal money from.
The cops are crooks:
President Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973 to persecute Blacks and antiwar activists. Over 50 years later, it's still in operation, serving as an employer for sociopathic goons and drug cartel moles.
And today the DEA is hopping mad because the Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally clipped its wings. No more stopping random people at airports and stealing their cash, following revelations of their latest corrupt scheme: paying airline employees to snitch on travelers.
The suspension comes after a particularly egregious incident where DEA agents detained an innocent traveler based on a tip from an airline employee who was getting paid a percentage of whatever the DEA could steal from passengers. The traveler recorded the encounter and missed their flight, despite no contraband being found. The agents in the recorded incident weren't even wearing body cameras — though that's hardly surprising for an organization that's dedicated to protecting drug traffickers.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz's investigation revealed that one airline employee alone received "tens of thousands of dollars" for flagging passengers who committed the suspicious act of… buying tickets within 48 hours of their flight. Meanwhile, the DEA hasn't bothered documenting these encounters or training their agents since 2023, ignoring their own policies from a 2015 oversight report.
Our law enforcement agencies are all to often indistinguishable from criminal syndicates.
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