Mike Dowd
Appearances
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Well, the city.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. How's this? You really didn't make a dent on it, and now there's two men off patrol. And then your next assignment was the desk. You're making arrests causing a problem. The city's paying for it, there's less police available, and the robberies, the murders, and the rapes in those communities were extremely high.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
They'd rather have themselves crack than people getting robbed and raped and murdered. Does that make sense?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So what does that lead to? that leads to the streets becoming unwieldy. You're like, there's no control. So what happens is a guy like me who's entrepreneurial spirit shows up and says, there's a way to control this. I tax these people. or arrest them, one of the two. And I can't arrest them, so I tax them.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yes. And that's the first time... That's the first time there was a tax levy.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No, but the first time that I committed an actual money crime, I would say. How old were you at that point in 83? 23, 24, yeah. And that was basically, we called it a Puerto Rican mystery back then. I know that I'm famous for saying that and people are like, ah, listen, that's what they called it, right?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Because the guy was from Puerto Rico and he had no paperwork, no license or anything like that. And he just bought the car.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Pulled them over, no plates.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You just came here from Puerto Rico, you got a stack of hundreds in your bag, and I'm looking, I'm saying, you know, you got like $2,000 worth of tickets, and I'm supposed to take your car from you. I said, but, you know, I like lobster. Leave me enough money for a lobster lunch, this whole thing can go away. So the kid was quick on his feet.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
He left a couple hundred bucks under my briefcase on the back seat. He got out, and I said, I don't want to ever see you again, you know, unless you got some more lobster lunch money later. Of course, I didn't say that. And, of course, I left that scene with the money, and I was very uncomfortable because it was the first time I actually solicited something like that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
But it was sort of a – it was almost like I won something.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I would say it was available and I've took some advantage of it. But yeah, there was some, yeah. Yeah, there was some. I mean, that's like, you know, you're driving by in a police car and a girl says hello and you go, fuck her. I mean, is that like a benefit of the job or is that, you know, your promiscuity? Did you ever do that while working? Yes. That's my biggest sin in the world.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Laid while working? In the car? Yes.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The lights and siren only went off once. Really? That was from a blowjob. It wasn't from... The girl's ass hit the fucking buzzer. I'm like, what the fuck? The big back. It was three in the morning. It hit the buzzer. I'm in the back of a courtyard of a nine-story building.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Not then, no, no. But shortly thereafter, there would be a situation where my sergeant, it was a murder scene, dead kid, 20-year-old, shot in the head, and there was a marijuana spot. There's money, there's drugs. I mean, listen, it's overwhelming when you'll come across these things and there's a dead body there and you're entrusted to handle all this stuff and you're broke.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And so I took a little thin stack of hundreds and put it in my pocket. Turned out it was like 600 bucks. And as the crime scene was being processed, in walks my sergeant, Sergeant James Otto. He says, is this it? Like two, three pounds of marijuana, which is like this much marijuana. It's a fucking big pile of shit. And I don't know, it was like, I don't know, $1,500 in cash stacked all over here.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
If you choose to have a conversation with me about this, you're going to hear things that you won't like. Let me just say this. Being a New York cop was the greatest job in the world. But it's not built for somebody to come in and be the knight in shining armor. You're working minimal wage. Civilians are against you, and you're directly told not to make drug arrests. Why?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Is this it? I go, yeah. I go, but I felt like he was asking me too much. So, well, I did have this, and I take out a thin stack of hundreds. And he goes, oh, anything else? I go, no, that's it. I said, you know, I didn't want it to get full of blood. Later on that night, I run into him at a choir practice, they would call it. He went out bullshitting, having a couple beers.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I said, so let me ask you a question. What if, and I say, and I come across money. He said, what if I kept that 600? He goes, I was annoyed that you gave it to me. Just picture the moment. You're 20-something years old. You're broke. You're coming to work. You're surviving. You're in survival mode. You're out having a couple of beers with your buddies.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And your boss, who's got 20 years on the job at this point, so he actually could retire if he wanted to, and he says to you, if I don't see it, it's yours. He says, but let me know so you can throw me something later on. It was like the whole vision of this thing changed at that moment. He's basically saying, if you get there, it's yours.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Take what you can before I get there because I don't want to witness it because I don't want to have to witness it. Was he taking money? Well, he'd say no, but clearly he was indicating that it's good. Just don't let me see it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Initially, my first DOA was my first day. Guy jumped off a building and landed on his head. That bothered me because the family showed up. It was horrific. And I gotta hold the family back and don't touch him because he could be a murderer. We don't know. We don't know why he's dead. It's a crime scene, essentially. I began to see people shot, stabbed.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You have a total disconnect, like really quickly. The first shooting I was at was doing a midnight shift and the guys were doing a burglary of a car. They were stealing tires and tire irons. And I said, hey, we should stop these guys. And my buddy Sal's like, nah, my partner, nah, let him go. It's late. Someone flags us down. Hey, this guy's trying to steal tires off a car.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So now I said, look, we got civilians complaining about the same people that we should have just tossed. Turn around, go back about two or three blocks, guy's dead in the street. And I see a tire iron. So I said to the people, were they carrying a jack or a tire iron? And they go, yeah. And they point over to the street where the tire iron was, taking the wheels off a car.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
This guy could have shot us. So like, he's dead. It could have been us. Or... If we did toss this guy, he could not be dead. So when you come that close to death itself, your survival instincts give you an ability to disconnect fairly quickly from those types of scenes.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. Yeah, a couple of times, but more important, one that strikes me a lot, I was talking to the guy who was going out. I didn't know he was going to die. He was stabbed in the stomach, and he's looking at me, and he goes, I'm getting cold. I go, yeah, it's going to be okay. He says, I'm getting called off. I said, are you going to be okay? We're going to get you to the hospital.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The ambulance showed up like five minutes later. He was barely conscious when he got in the ambulance and he wasn't going to make it. And he died. And that was sad because I couldn't do anything for him.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I felt bad because I was talking to him, knowing he's going to die, like, And one other time I felt really bad, some guy who was, I guess he was getting laid, young guy, big, heavy set, strong, powerful black guy. His wife is like, I looked at her, she goes, I'm like, I knew, I could tell it was a sexual thing. They had sex. And the fucking guy was like 35 years old.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah, and that's a touchy subject, but I accept it. And I've turned it into something where I'm able to maybe chaperone an audience because of it, but it's not nice to hear that. More importantly, it's not nice for your parents to hear something like that, and thank God they're still alive.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And he was either dead or dying. He had a heart attack. And I wanted to give him CPR. It would have been my first actual CPR case, you know. And the two cops I was working with go, no, don't worry about it. Go get the ambulance. Don't worry about it. Yeah, he's going to be okay. Don't worry about it. Go get the ambulance. I'm like, shouldn't we do CPR? No, no, no. You go outside. I was the kid.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I was the rookie. And these two old-timers were like, don't worry about it. It's going to be all right. Go outside and direct the ambulance in. Like two minutes later, the ambulance showed up. They started CPR on the guy, and he died. To not render aid when you think you can make a difference, that hurts.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I don't know. I don't know why. They didn't tell me why. And it was very disheartening because I think I could have helped save the guy. But what am I going to do, wrestle with these guys? They're in charge. Senior cop on the scene is in charge.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
My partner at the time took some home out of the blue, and he came back and handed me a couple hundred dollars one day. I said, what's that for? He goes, that shit we've been throwing out is cocaine. We ain't throwing it out no more. I got somebody that wants it. So he's bringing me cash. I was like, okay, well, this ain't that bad. I mean, you know...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
For me, it was like I didn't see it, I didn't do it, so I was okay with it. And then it becomes like anything else. It softens the blow for the next step. And eventually I would lead to me just whatever dope I found I would take. And if I couldn't find it, I'd see one of the drug dealers and say, give me something or give me something for discount. I mean, you become a market maker at that point.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Did you start buying it to sell it from these drug dealers? At some point, I started buying it, yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So it's a dichotomy, right? Because I put the uniform on, I go to work. And if you are not in the drug business, you're going to get a good police officer. From my perspective. You may never say that. You may never agree with it. But if you had a car accident and you needed a police officer to take the report, bring you to a hospital, I would do all the arrangements, do the best I could.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
If you had gotten robbed, I would do the report. I'd take you to a hospital if you were injured. You know, whatever it is. I mean, I responded like a proper police officer. But if you were in the drug business, you were mine. You were mine. Simple. I mean, how else can I say it? What do you mean by you were mine? You were mine. I owned you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
But, you know, it's not the happy day when your mother sees your name on the front page of the newspaper, I'll tell you that, and for nothing good, you know.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
In every regard. Whatever I wanted, you were mine.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Whatever I wanted. Your car if I wanted it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I didn't have to. A guy gave me one.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Whatever.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
They weren't that large. I'd say $40,000 to $50,000 at one time, which back then was good money. You're talking about two years' salary.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Things like that come along. So there was opportunities. So you would call that a score, right, opposed to an ongoing thing. Because like, boom, it's there. It's a one hit and a wonder and it's over. Every job in East New York, nine out of 10 was involved with drugs. You're exposed to it. It's your choice on how you deal with it. You're the boss. You are the boss. You show up, you're the boss.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The accurate answer is some were. The best description is you would never know. You would never know. I might because I know what's going on. But if you were a cop that was not involved, you would never know. So the good cops wouldn't know that it was happening? They wouldn't know because I'm not going to tell you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Now, if you happen to say something to me that you, hey, wait a minute, something went down there, I'd say, and what do you want to do about it? You want in? I'll tell you a funny story. Ready? We go to the scene. I don't want to describe it because it's lengthy. Long story short, the cops show up. We're the cops. But the cops show up behind us and they go, oh, that's Dowd and his partner.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Leave them alone. And they turn around and they walk away. So the office is new. I don't want to see what they're doing because then I'm culpable or responsible for what they're doing. And that's how it became. And what were you doing in that scene? Cocaine and heroin. My partner wanted the guns. I said, what are you going to do with the guns? There's money in this. This is money. That's a gun.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So it may have been thousands because every time I did something that was inappropriate. So you've got to step back for a second. Every time a police officer puts on his badge and swears that oath and takes the job on, he's basically taking a risk on everything he does that can end him up in jail, everything. And that's really a very difficult position to be in.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And people were dead. So the guns may be connected to the crime.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So one time I put it in a laundry bag, which was loaded up with...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
heroin and cocaine and i don't know whatever else was in there and i happened to be lucky there was a a row of garbage pails along this person's entranceway as the sergeant was walking up the stairway to investigate the scene with us to to secure it and make sure that everyone's doing what they're supposed to do i take this bag and i go like this and i put it in the garbage pail he comes up to me i go sarge
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
There's a guy dead in the doorway. They shot him through the eye hole. I said, there's another guy shot upstairs and there's a bunch of guns and stuff up there. I go, but there's so many cops here. I'm going to go 98, which means I'm going to go back on patrol. He goes, good. Like, good idea. I'm like, good, we agree. So that gets me away from the scene. So now he goes up the stairs.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I go back into the garbage pail, pick up the green laundry bag and put it in my car and I leave. So now I got to go to a drug dealer, get rid of it. And then you get loads of cash. Eventually, yes.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
In that specific case, I drove right to my drug-dealing friend's place who had an auto body, an auto sound city. They put the sound into cars. I went right to his shop. I dropped off the dope with him. And he called his buddy that sold the heroin in the area and so on and so forth. And that recycles back into money.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I should have been more cautious.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No. You know, it was in the back of my mind for probably five years, just never left. And thus, you constantly are, your anxiety levels up, you know, your body starts to go numb. And you wonder, what's wrong with me? What's wrong with you? You're living like three different lives.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You know, you have a wife, you have a girlfriend, you have drugs, you're a cop, you're selling drugs, you're shaking people down. Everything's just fine. It's never good.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah, most of the time.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
At that time, one.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I would lay that up to her. But the mink coats and the new cars and the trips around the world, you don't do them on a cop salary.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Enough.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Stop. I don't need this. I'd rather have you. Imagine that. That's a nice feeling in a way, right? I'd rather have you and sleep under a bridge.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You can't stop that. It's not that easy to stop that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I'm working in Coney Island. I was sent to Coney Island to get away from East New York because they knew I was hot. I mean, the story is so big and deep, it's just crazy. The bottom line with him was I end up in a dispute with him somehow. He's a cop. Cop, yeah. And he had a Mercedes-Benz, 380 or something, Mercedes-Benz, whatever it was. His license plate on the back of his car said, B. Scott.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Less than a month later, about three weeks later, I'm out in Long Island, and there's the car. There's only one B. Scott, all right, in New York plate. And I pulled over, and I said to my wife at the time, I said, get a good look at this guy. And he went up into a crack house. There was only one crack house in the whole neighborhood. And that was it. He went up into it. And then he came out.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Everything you do legitimately can end you up being sanctioned or arrested. So I would suggest basically anything I did or any interaction I did could have been considered with some kind of criminal intent.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So I left. I went home. And I spoke to my neighbor, who was my wife's uncle, who was a detective in the 102 squad, who was 28 years on the job at the time. I said, listen, I want to talk to you. He goes, what's up? I told him the story, the scenario. And he goes, listen, Mike, anything but drugs. You got to turn them in.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And it was hard for me to do this because now I'm turning on a guy that I know was involved in drugs and I know what I had done previously. So I call and turn on, they were at my house in 45 minutes. Like, hello? I mean, my house, I live 45 minutes from them. They were at my house in 45 minutes. They do an interview with me. Long story short, they put a lineup in front of me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I picked the guy out. So later on, within a week or so, I'm getting phone calls to my house at 2, 3 in the morning. But it's every day. It's going on every day for about a month's length of time. So finally I go, what do you want, bro? Enough is enough. I'm fucking your wife every time you go to work. I'm fucking her. Oh, really?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah, she gets off the train at Long Island Railroad, and I pick her up, I bring her home, and I fuck her. Oh, okay, thank you very much. I said, well, why don't you come by, and we'll straighten it out right here, you and me. He goes, why don't I put a bullet in your fucking head while you're standing there in front of the window?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Well, that's different now. But I didn't. Because I didn't know who it was. It took me years to figure out who it was. But in the interim, I ran into him again. I essentially arrested him without arresting him. I gave him summonses, which is an arrest in a way. And he was so pissed off, he made a complaint against me. At this point, he was suspended.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Oh, so he was a civilian when you arrested him? He was suspended. He was an officer on suspension. Okay. And he was suspended for being the gun in a drug case in Harlem. He was the collector in Harlem for a drug organization. It turns out. What's a collector? He was the strongman. So if you owed money to a drug organization, he went out and collected it. Oh, okay.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So he was a police officer who had a job collecting money for a drug organization in Harlem. Thank you. Thank you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So every time you take something from somebody, money, cash, drugs, personal property, let's say, it's basically a robbery, basically, because you have a gun on your hip and you're using a position of power. So you would start with robbery, extortion, burglary, when you went into someone's home and came out with a product.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Thank you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I mean, I've taken tapes from, you know, back in the day, you know, those VCR tapes, they were... There was a lot of good stuff in some PCR tapes. I mean, we can get a little humorous here, but the reality was, you know, some guy's porn collection might be missing. I mean, these are the things that you ran into. Their cash, their gold coins, you know, whatever it was.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Thank you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Thank you. Thank you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
When someone's dead, it's really hard for them to complain about what's missing. So, you know, it's ironic, it's stupid, and it's debauchery at the same time. So you cross all the lines of decorum when you do something like that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
It made me. It could have been. They were dead.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
They were dead. They couldn't use it anymore. I mean, they were smoking crack, okay? So I'm in the 94th Precinct in Brooklyn now, which is Williamsburg, where you say was a lovely place. And it was. It was becoming lovely when we were there. They started opening up some studios. We got a call for dead on arrival. Someone was murdered.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
She probably would have said he's a lost soul and an asshole. I wasn't a nice. You become God. Like you get the God complex. Like you feel indestructible. But you see yourself declining. Like it's the weirdest thing in the world. You know you're going down a rabbit hole. But the whole time you have this false armor on. What's the rabbit hole you were going down? Drugs, alcohol, women, violence.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You know, violence is coming, you know? I mean, you're turning into a violent potential killing machine. I was going to become the exact thing that you would have said you don't belong on the street ever in your life again.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
When I came home, it was an eye-opener because I thought, great, I'm gonna get a fresh start. It turned out that when you become a straight-laced guy, when you've been known to be corrupt, The process of getting to become a police officer in full respect is very, very difficult. Maybe never, it may never happen.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So in my case, because I tried to do the right thing and I'm not trying to shift responsibility because it's always your own responsibility. Because I was trying to do the right thing, cops got nervous because this isn't the guy we heard about. So that means he's here to set us up.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Correct, yes, very well played, yes. That's what they thought, that I was now working for the man and I was here there to get them. And what did that mean in terms of how they treated you? So they would shun me, not want to work with me, not want to partner with me, not want to back me up, not invite me to any social gatherings. So I was basically an outcast now.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So we show up, and the guy's sitting on his couch with a knife in his side. I mean, you walk into a home and there's a guy on his couch like this sitting there with a hole in his side with the knife still in it. He's bled out. And the place looked like there was a party that didn't stop.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I went from being the guy that ran shit to an outcast.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Well, it meant that you isolated and that you had no camaraderie. You didn't have the reason that you enjoyed being a cop because you had brotherhood, camaraderie, safety, protection, like any organization that you belong to. And I basically didn't have that anymore, and that affected me and my decision-making going forward from there. So I just couldn't stay stopped. It's like being an alcoholic.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You can stop, but you've got to stay stopped. How long were you in rehab for? Two years. You were in rehab for two years? Yeah. Not locked away in rehab, but what they call modified assignment for two years. Okay.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Well, I was hoping that they would offer it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. Messages were being dropped. This guy's no good. They're going to arrest him soon if he continues on. You know, the words to me were, you're going out one way or the other, and it's not through disability. You're either getting arrested or fired.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You know when the kid goes into the barn and there's a pile of hay and shit and manure and someone tells him there's a diamond ring in the middle of that pile of shit and the kid gets a shovel and he starts shoveling, looking for that diamond ring. That's who I am. I'm that guy looking for that little diamond in that pile of shit. I'm an optimist. You thought it would all be OK?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Listen, I was in prison for, well, I was sentenced to 14 years, which, by the way, was a pretty fair sentence overall, I guess. And every day in prison, I thought the next day I might go home. And I did that for 12 and a half years. That's how powerful the mind is.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So it's 92. The day after Rodney King riots, May 4th, May 5th, I had just made a deal with Kenny Urell, my ex-partner, who was in a cocaine business with him, his wife, and his friends at the bowling alley. Kenny Urell kept calling me up for drugs because the price had doubled. And he knew that if anyone could get it, I could. And I did.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So I got him a couple of packages of cocaine, let's say three or four. In the meantime, his phones were tapped. because he was the target of an investigation on Long Island. The following day, I'm driving around, and our radio's extremely quiet. No one's, 9-4's quiet anyway, the Williamsburg area, but really quiet for the last two, three days. And I'm getting a little suspicious.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I just pick the top of the package off with Kenny. I pull up to the station house and I see a car there. It looks strange. And I see two guys in the front seat. I walk into the station house, my partner and the desk officer. He points, he says, the captain wants to see you. In walks these two guys that were in the car that were out in front of the precinct with their badges out.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So while there, I'm sitting around waiting and waiting for the boss to show up and the squad to show up, the detective squad to show up. And I'm looking around, rummaging a little bit, like looking for the evidence of the crime scene. And sure enough, I hit the button on the VCR and there's the pawns. They've got the pawn on me. So I'm saying, okay, he's dead.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Lieutenant so-and-so, internal affairs, we're taking you for a drug test. And sure enough, went downstairs, got changed. I couldn't even get changed. I couldn't get my clothes off. They were so close to me. I couldn't bend my knee. It was like right up my ass. I'm like, excuse me, guys. I said, am I under arrest? They go, no, no, no. Are you sure? Because you're awfully close here. Anyway.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
They put me in a car. I get in the back of the car. I said, I got to smoke. I got cocaine in my pocket now because it's in my clothes. I couldn't take it out and leave it in my locker with them standing there. I go, you guys, can you open a window? I'm smoking a cigarette. I'm chain smoking. That's okay. We'll be all right. Are you sure you guys are going to choke out?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No, no, don't worry about it. I'm trying to get the cocaine and throw it out the window. Anyway, they pull up to Lefrak City, and there's probably 60 cops, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, inspectors, all of them, lined up with their brass on, all in uniform. I'm like, what the fuck is this? For a drug test? A little strange. I get out of the car. I go, I can't dump it here to here.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I can't even dump the Coke. So I get upstairs to the 16th floor, and there's the lieutenant who's been waiting for me for years. He goes, Dowd, how are you? I go, good, sir. How are you? He goes, good. He hands me the cup to go take a piss. I hit just on a bump and a vodka, so I knew I was hit.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I turn around and walks my mother's cousin from Suffolk County Police Department and says, Mr. Dowd, you're under arrest for conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No. I didn't even think a week. I didn't think a day. I'm going to make bail. I'm going to beat the charge. That's how I'm thinking. How did it feel when you got arrested? It was the biggest moment of relief. You know, you asked about life-changing, you know...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
lowest points this was the best feeling in the world almost like almost like i was like finally it's over it's finally over i can go on with my life somehow i didn't know it would take almost 15 years well even more when you think about probation and a lot of this shit you were relieved When I was going to work every day, I was going to work with anxiety and fear.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I no longer had to have that fear. It was gone. Of course, I didn't know what I would be facing. I figured this would work out. Like, that's how I thought.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Oh, because they got a budget to manage. And the average amount of overtime for one crack arrest was 18 hours. So that leads to the streets becoming unwieldy. So what happens is a guy like me, who's entrepreneurial spirit, shows up and says, there's a way to control this. I can't arrest them, so I tax them. And that escalated. Greed is powerful, bro. But what happens then? You become God.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I was afraid of ruining my life. Okay. And living a double life, you know, I'm lying to my wife, I'm lying to my family, I'm lying to the department, I'm lying to myself, I'm lying to my young child, two children at this point. You know, everything's a lie. So this anxiety and fear in that, the fear of arrest really never entered my mind.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
There's crack, evidence of, there was no crack there, by the way. It was all gone. No one leaves crack behind. The cigarette smokes were, you know, the ashes were piled out of the ashtrays, and there's beer bottles everywhere. So it's July. It's 100 degrees, and this apartment has no air conditioning in it. So what does any self-respecting 20-something-year-old man want at this point?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I still do today, yeah. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. If I could capsulize, put that in a bottle, the peace I had at that moment, I could probably live in that peace my entire life and wish for that peace, the peace that comes over you when that pressure comes off your life because I no longer have to live a lie.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. I mean, some people kill themselves. Other people overcome it and become the better version of themselves. Either they make lemonade out of the lemons, or they go on to become ruinous. And I told you, I'm looking for that diamond in that pile of shit. So to me, it was freedom. How old's your child now, your son? I have two. My oldest son, he'll be turning 40. And my younger son is 33 or 34.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So it's – and you'll know this from life itself. It's easier to tell the truth in the end than it is to lie because you have to remember the lies every day and live with the pressure of being uncovered. So accept the hard knocks that come along with living honestly and you'll turn out to be a better person. So part of my lesson is if you don't have any bumps in the road of life –
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You really don't know that much about life, right? You have to learn how to overcome adversity. So go ahead, live a good life, do the best you can. And if there comes a point where you want to, let's say, experiment with something or take risks, just accept the consequences. If you're going to stick up a bank, there's going to be consequences, maybe.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And if there isn't any consequences, it's going to haunt you. There will eventually be a consequence. There's always a consequence. Everything has a cost.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You're logical. People that live in fear of consequences... They don't think of that. They think of the immediate consequences, immediate gratification. Guy wants to get high because he wants to feel this now, but he doesn't realize that later on that cost, the consequence to that job, career, freedom, future, you know, relationships, all the damage one incident can cause.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
But if you own up to something immediately and accept the responsibility for it, people have a choice then. You know who I am. You can either interact with me or not. But I don't have to have a false front on when I speak with you or interact with you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yes. So it's not hard for me to say anymore, because if you choose to have a conversation with me about those things, you're gonna hear things that you may or may not like, but you chose to be in this conversation. You, your audience, people that, listen, there's a lot of people that hate me out there, but I know this for a fact.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I have people today reaching out to me that have attempted suicide 10, 15 times. Cops that had the gun in their mouth and then their son walked in the room and then I spoke to them the next day. I mean, I can go down a list of them. So you never know what being honest and fully disclosing the tragedy of life or the experiences of life can do for the next person.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Not the porn, per se. But the beer, right? So I'm looking around. Every beer bottle is empty. And right below the apartment is a bodega, right below it. Like upstairs is the dead guy and downstairs is the bodega. So we go downstairs and we tell the guy, listen, we're going to be upstairs for a couple hours. He hands us a six-pack of Coors Light. He can't make the story up.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And so that's really where I'm so happy that I've been able to do that. I have a purpose and it keeps me connected. You know, look, once you're a cop, you're sort of always a cop in a way. When there's going to be cops, he's never was a cop. He was a bad guy. Well, you know what?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No. When I get out on bail, I'm clear-headed, but I don't know what to do because I've never been in this situation. I don't have a job. I have two or three mortgages to pay. I have a condo on the ocean in Myrtle Beach. I have three homes. The tenants stopped paying the rent because they saw I was arrested. Now I'm back in the...
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
chase again to try to get my life back together and then it turns into a whole new scenario comes my way i'm out on bail i end up making a plan to go to nicaragua if they could become a shrimp fisherman wait let's pause there a second so you're out on bail and you plan to escape the us yes which means that you'd be escaping your charges correct but i can't go if i don't pay my family back i can't leave them homeless
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yes.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
There's a woman that owes this drug organization half a million in cash and 10 kilos. All we have to do is go get the money from her and the drugs, and I can pay my family back, and I can leave the country, and Kenny's going to join me. My partner's back in. But that wasn't the plan. The plan was never to kidnap her. The plan was to go in with some flowers.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
push her out of the way, take the money and the drugs. But Kenny was working for the federal government right now wearing a wire. He called me up for the drugs that brought me into his conspiracy and they made me the kingpin of his conspiracy. How long had you known Kenny? I had known Kenny since 1985. So now it's 1992. So you'd known him a long time.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yes.
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Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
With the federal government, yes.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Correct. And leave the country. So what does that do? It takes me from a low-life drug dealer to a low-life kidnapping murderer guy. So then I'll never go home. You see? You see how they're good. They're good. They take you from being a drug dealer who's going to get 15, 20 years to a murderer, kidnapper. You took the bait, though. Took the bait.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
No. Now I'm angry. Now I'm pissed off. I'm pissed off because I'm, you got to realize, I'm a rat in a corner trying to get out. You throw some cheese in front of me. I go and eat the cheese. And then you poison the cheese, which is Kenny bringing the fucking poison pill to me of this kidnapping theory that unfolds.
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Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
We walk in, me and my partner, Tom, and in comes the detective. We each have a beer. We're sitting there bullshitting, waiting for the boss to show up. Boss walks in. She looks around. She goes, I want every beer bottle in here printed. She says, and in the refrigerator. Now, I just put the fucking six-pack in the refrigerator when she walked in. So I'm going, now, picture this.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
That's the dichotomy of this whole thing. It was the greatest relief of my life. But I jumped back in like a fool. It was, you know, the word fear always comes out first for me. Fear of not being able to provide. From now I got a wife and two kids. Because I was told I'm getting 25 to life by the state of New York. That'll make anybody consider running. I don't give a fuck who you are.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Now you're a police officer in your 30s, 25 to life. So you know you're getting 25, so maybe 30. So now I'm 30-something years old. If I get out at 60, maybe, if I live through it, I'm not going to go. Bottom line. Now, whatever opportunity comes along, I'm looking to hit on it, whatever I can do. So I'm like that fish, they dangle that bait, eventually that fish is going to bite that hook.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
What happens to the bail? Do your family get to keep their money? Yes, because I got arrested.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So when I was sitting there waiting to get sentenced, I'm thinking I'm going to get seven, eight years. And sure enough, she was firm and gave me what she thought I deserved. Mr. Dow, that's 168 months. So I'm going, what the fuck's 168 months? And she knew it. She goes, that's 14 years. How did you feel when you heard that? I was devastated. I was devastated.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You don't know how you're going to react. I was pissed and devastated and I got to survive this. Like, now you go right into survival mode. I got to survive this. And how am I going to do that?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. But I was fortunate enough that... See, I went to prison as basically a racketeer, right? And I worked with Dominican drug gangs. 30% of the population is Dominican slash Puerto Rican slash drug dealers in that realm. Then you have your street peddlers, which wouldn't be the same... level, and then you have your white-collar guys and your bank robbers. So I was a cop.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I wasn't sent to prison as a police officer for violating human rights, for beating and abusing individuals. I was sent to prison for doing what everybody else in there was doing. So the landing was a little bit different for me. Now, don't say it was not easy. I didn't have people opening a welcoming mat for me. But there were some people who were kind and that helped make my bid go well.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
They know I'm corrupt, okay? But they can't prove it. I'm on what you would call secret probation, even though I'm not on probation. They're watching me like a hawk. Now I got a detective who's looking at me like, we just had a beer. Our fucking fingerprints are inside the refrigerator. And he's scared. I'm not. I mean, I'm going to take a hit, I guess, right? So I go, Sarge. She goes, what?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
She took eight months to come see me. Eight months? Yeah. And then she finally came and she didn't want to let me go. You know, that was tough. She had, she went to church every day. 12 years.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
She's always the, Bob was always the, the weather vane of what's right and wrong, right? I fought with my mother my whole fucking life. She always kept me on track, you know, tried. Yeah, she's tough. She's still tough. I had to fucking get me a cocksucker. You got me a cocksucker.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
We fight every fucking day still. My father leaves the room, but we get to... He's like, you guys are always fighting. That's what your mother does. Because she's the one who keeps you to the mat. She puts you on the mat. My father, it's okay, we'll get over it. But my mother, she holds you to account. Mother holds you to account.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I never knew that. I knew that. I only found that out about a year ago. About 20 years. She only told me that about a year ago.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
In that refrigerator, there's a six-pack of Coors Light. And my fingerprints are on the bottles in the refrigerator. Yeah. She looks at me. She goes, of course it's you. She goes, of all the people in this fucking police department, it would be your fingerprints inside the refrigerator on a Cozlight bottle at a homicide scene. And there's only four homicides in this precinct this year.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Because my mother's not very lovey-dovey. She's not. Because my father was, you know. You know, when you're raised by, my mother was raised by nuns, you know, very cold and calculating. You never knew she had a heart. I mean, for someone to go to church every fucking day.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
That they persevered. They persevered when I didn't think much of their travails that they were going through. I wish I could be them to my kids. When I reflect on it, I'm like, I'm not them. I can never be them. I just can't. But, yeah, it's really heavy for me. I don't think anybody had asked me that question before because that's really – I mean, I'm 64 years old, bro. My parents are 80s.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I don't even know what guilt is anymore sometimes. I just think it's – I have compassion for what they've had to deal with. So if you can translate that to guilt, I guess so. But for me, it's more like they're – that's amazing what they did and what they still do. Like maybe there's a sense of pride and maybe some shame. There's a lot of gratitude there. I am so grateful. Like be –
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
That would be the best way to describe, yeah, because I didn't have that for my parents growing up because I was the one. I was the star. I was going to bring my family someplace. And in the end, it came back to the people that I was always told not to be. Like, don't be like dad, be somebody else. You know, my mother, she came from a broken home. Don't be like your mother. Be like somebody else.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
But these are the perfect people. It all comes back to them, really, if you think about it. Without them, I'd be in. I'd be inside.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. I'm going to say I was 44, actually, when I stepped out the door.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah, that's, you know, quite the story. I looked out the window and I saw my brother's two kids. I didn't know their names. And I'm looking at these two kids. Those are my nephews. I don't even know who they are. I don't know their names. And then you see the tears flowing? That was ten times the first shower I took in freedom.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And you've been on three of them. You've been at the scene of three. So I go, yeah, it doesn't look too good. She goes, I'm going to go downstairs. I'm going to go to my car and I'm going to make a phone call. Whatever I got to do. She said, get rid of that and don't do it again. Did you steal the porn collection? Yes. It was already in the car. It was already in the car. I already had it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And I didn't know if it was the water or my tears that were cascading over me. That's no exaggeration. I had to rebuild a life from there. But without them and that shower, without that moment of realizing the loss. See, people don't realize the loss. The loss is from the time you graduated high school and finished two and a half years of college. You left that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And then there's the next 20 fucking something years of your life. Zero. It's a zero. Zero. You know, that's the, you come out to zero. You are zero. Like, we all measure ourselves by what we've gained over life. I don't have a car. I don't have a dollar. I don't have any clothes. I have nothing. And now I'm 44 years old. But I had two wonderful people.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. Not everybody can get that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
When I first came home, yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
When I first came home, I didn't even know how to order a hot dog. I didn't know how. I didn't know how to matriculate for society. That same moment, I came out of the shower and I stood there and I said, what am I going to do with my life? I got to get a job. What's it like to get a job? Forget about getting a job when you come out of prison. That's like almost impossible, just so you know.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Like, there's no bullshit. It's almost impossible to get a job when you get home from prison. Now you're a dirty cop. Who the fuck wants to hire a dirty cop? You disparage the public's trust. You rob drug dealers. You sold drugs. You did cocaine. Oh, did you want to hire me? You didn't know your kids when you came out. I didn't know my kids. I, uh... God, how could you?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I was gone for 12 and a half years. My son was six, five and a half. He went to college. My other son was 11 months, and he was going into second year of high school by the time I went to see him, or first year of high school. So I didn't know them. So that was a tough situation to walk into, and yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And that was 10 years ago, roughly. Yes, so that was 2015, 16. If I went back and I spoke to Mike at, let's say, 18 years old... Yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. Well, you know, maybe I would, I'm proud of you and I love you. You know, I'm proud of you and I love you. It's simple. Two words. Why did he need to hear that? What would that have changed? Well, because we never know that we're doing enough. And to be full of pride can be damaging. But for others to be proud of you,
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I mean, that's all he had, a knife in his belly and a porn collection.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Like, you wonder, what did I do that gives you a sense of pride on my behalf, let's say? Like, why would you be proud of me? Well, because I like the way you handle people. You go out of your way, you know, which is both showing love and it's a reason for you, friends, to be proud. I'm proud of Mike. Why? Because he sacrifices of himself for others.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Like, that's sort of my nature, I guess, to begin with.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You know, you're getting back to my mother, okay? You're getting me back to my mother stuff. And I've always been seeking my mother's approval for some reason. My dad was always pretty proud of me, you know?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I think, so one time hearing that would do nothing for anybody.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
To feel that and to be constantly reassured, I think that that could make some significant changes in any person. Because as I'm thinking it through, I've always was seeking my mother's approval. I mean, every problem I ever fucking had with a woman, I would always like profess my mother's, I don't have my mother's approval. Somehow it would come out. I'm disappointing my mother.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And that never had left me. I think now I'm okay. My mom and I are pretty cool. You know, when she told me she was praying for me every day, I'm like, I didn't think you liked me. You know? So, yeah.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
It's just everything changes, but it's still corruption. And so when I was a corrupt police officer, the corruption was at the lower level because it was a street level corruption. Today, it's all up at the top and it's plenty of it. It's all about big budgets and money, power. Do you think they'll always be? Listen, they had the girl bend over and get taken up the ass. Excuse me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The police chief. Did what? Grabbed a lube from his location, bent the girl over the couch and fucked her in the ass. Recently? Yes. And he was paying her for it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
This was a fucking lieutenant.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah, because she needed money to pay her bills.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
He gave her $200,000 in overtime pay. This is what goes on. That's the corruption that goes on today.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Not to the extent that it was, no. But there's always some, it's always, here's how it's today. Corruption is today, hit and miss. Scores, opportunity. There's no systematic corruption today. There may be a few, there may be a few, but very few.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Finding something and taking it. Like that would be the corruption you would run in today more than anything else. In that kind of way.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
level of corruption but systematic corruption of the bureaucracy itself is massive what was the most you you rich you um how much money you made in a day you said it's 40 000 40 000 yeah and was that the it's the funny thing is i could have made 150 000 if diaz said i should have took the money from what from that the robbery where they left the money behind he said you should have took that money at least i know someone would have got it he said the cops got it
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Wow. Yeah. So, so yeah. So I mean, listen, there's a thousand stories in that city. Every day was a, it's like being in a movie, but you're just, you're actually part of it every, every fucking day. You know, it's just insane. I listen, I loved being a police officer. I didn't think that I would. Thank you. Thank you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Why did you join?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I, you know, no. I mean, I guess, so the answer to, so if you say no, I mean, that means that you have no concern or care. So it was an immature yes. So you take that oath, you don't really mean it. And I'm embarrassed if I say, I want to be truthful because I don't like to lie. I felt pride when I said it. Is that? I felt full of pride when I said it.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I was making more than the president of the United States by protecting one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in New York. But I was losing control and I became the face of New York City's corruption problem.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So one of the things that I would suggest on that statement or that whole genre is it wasn't necessarily – we weren't necessarily trained on integrity or ethics. We were trained on this is what would happen to you if – Don't take $5 from a motorist or $50 from a motorist because that will lead to, one, you being arrested and being all over the news, and then all the cops are going to hate you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Like, it was never really explained to you as a student in the academy the depth of the lack of integrity and what you're actually affecting.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Thanks for saying it that way, yes. Because it destroys the very fabric of what people trust in law enforcement. Because when you need help, you've got to call somebody, and the person that shows up has to be trustworthy. I would argue, because I robbed money from drug dealers and even their drugs, you can still trust me, right? That's what I would argue.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Because if you're not doing those things, essentially, you're safe with me and I will give you the best police service that you ever asked for and probably go above and beyond to help you.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So, yes. So that wasn't the internal affairs officer that said that. That would be your academy instructor.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. Ironically, he said to me, us in the academy class, if you live by the rules that these guys... espouse internal affairs, you'll never make a successful cop. Just cover your ass. That was his words. Just cover your ass. What do they mean by that? Always have a reason, always have an excuse? Basically, yeah, you hit it on the head. And if you have a partner, be on the same page.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So let's say something was handled inappropriately. Maybe there was some excessive force used, which I'm not fond of and nor am I in favor of. But there may be times where you might have given a guy an extra elbow. It happens. You know, you're mad, you spit in my face, I put the cuffs on you, I give you a shot. It happens. Do you hit the door on the way in? Sometimes.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So as long as your partner and you have the story straight, you can pretty much, without these cameras today... Get away with most things that are not unreasonable.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
So, let's just be clear. The first person that's going to snitch on you is going to be a cop, okay? However, more chances than not, they try not to. And that's just the facts because what cop wants to go out on patrol knowing that if something goes down and it goes a little sideways from where it's supposed to go?
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Let's say you and I were working together and you just told on me last week and now someone's pummeling you to death in the street. I have a chance to help you or I can call for backup and wait. So you don't want that relationship with me, right? I mean – We're trying to get home tonight. Yeah. So it really puts people in a very precarious position.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Correct.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. You know, I mean, it's really not built. That position in this society is not built for somebody to come in and be the knight in shining armor and say, listen, Officer Dowd, that was not appropriate. I'm going to have to report you right now. Before he goes to report me, I'm going to either bludgeon him to death because now he's taking my livelihood away.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
He's taking the food off the table of my family. You don't look at it as like you're getting the guy in trouble. You look at it as you're taking a career, a livelihood, Incarceration. I mean, these are the things that can happen. Like I said, the minute you put that badge on, and let's get to this, is the minute that the job is looking to take something from you. Think about that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
A mechanic goes to work and they say, can you get six cars done today? I'll try. You got six, it is a bonus for you at the end of the day. A cop goes to work and they're looking to screw him the whole time.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The department and the civilians. I didn't like the way he handled me. They make a complaint. Your boss goes, I got the people complaining down. I'm going to have to give you a shit assignment or I'm going to have to change your assignment.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Yeah. And it's really to cover their ass. back to the beginning. It's a very, very difficult position. A fireman goes to work. You know what they do? They save lives. They put out fires. They eat a good meal. They have a great gym. No one's in there going, they have rules, the decorum, but no one's going, we're looking to take you for this. We're looking to stripe you for that.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
The civilians aren't walking into a firehouse and going, I didn't like the way that truck backed out. And the siren blasted and hurt my ears. They're going, yay, they're going to save someone's life. A cop shows up on the scene. He's going to give me a ticket. He's going to arrest my husband. My husband beat me and he doesn't believe me.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
I mean, it's just, it's such a, it's such a grating position to be in.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
43.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
Well, I mean, total 10 years, but yeah. So not all of that was patrol, but yeah. So it doesn't matter. I mean, I can make 43 arrests in a month, okay, if I really wanted to.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
You couldn't keep the police on patrol if they were making arrests. They were clogging up the system. The system would get so jammed up, the average amount of overtime for one crack arrest was 18 hours.
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Corrupt Police Officer: I Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs! There’s Massive Corruption Going On Today! - Mike Dowd
And they all get processed through the correction system. And they all get processed through the court system. I mean, you're talking 150,000 arrests a year in Brooklyn alone. That's a lot of numbers if you just keep cranking at it. Everybody's getting 18 hours overtime per arrest.