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MIKE DOWD COMES CLEAN! Untold Stories from America's Most Corrupt Cop
Tue, 07 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: What led Mike Dowd to corruption?
I'm looking at this going, they're on us. What am I going to do? $5 million in my hands right now and you leave because they're coming to get you tomorrow. They never got the guy. what was that point where you thought, I'm gonna start doing, I'm gonna... So, yeah, so what happens is there's little things along the way, little opportunities along the way that you don't take.
Right.
And you're like, damn, I could have took that money or I could have took that drugs, whatever it was, or maybe I could have let this person go or told them, hey, throw me 100, I'll let you go, or if it's for a ticket, if it's... But there's little things along the way that show up. And then the back of your head, you go, I could have just – I could have took something there.
But the good guy in you wins out early on. And then after a while, what happens is this. You get – what's the word? Disenfranchised. You get – that's a bullshit term. Disenfranchised. Like, you know, I'm a voter. I'm disenfranchised. Go vote, motherfucker. Anyway, so – I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I get so fucking – it gets in my vein, these people that complain and sit there on the couch complaining. But so you begin to become – so let me explain this. This is how I would explain it. When you become a police officer, all right, The day you become a police officer, you swear and you take the oath. That's what you do. You raise your right hand, you take the oath and you become a cop.
From that day forward, the job, quote unquote, the job, the department is finding ways to injure you in your position as a police officer. Okay, how so? Constantly. So I'll give you an example. In the police academy, they give you two star cards. What's a star card? I don't know what a star card is, but it's something that you have to carry in your pocket of your uniform.
And if you do something that's an infraction, they take the star card out and write it on your card. And they put the card back in your pocket and you walk on with the day. And at some point, If you get too many write-ups on that star card, you get a demotion or whatever they can do. They suspend you. They could even terminate you.
So the minute you get the job, they're looking to take it from you. Right. Like, if you're a mechanic working in fucking Jiffy Lube, you think they're looking to take your job the minute you walk in, or maybe they're looking to promote you.
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Chapter 2: How did police culture affect decision-making?
And he's the old Jack.
Yeah, yeah.
And so he was like, these guys haven't got a fucking clue. He's a man. The cops are bringing. So now the cops are making $35,000 a year.
Yeah, so they're bringing shit in.
They're bringing in cell phones, drugs, weapons. And I mean in droves. Because what are they going to do? I'm going to lose a job making $35,000 a year? Right. Fuck. I don't give a fuck.
Exactly.
A job where I'm in here and guards are getting sick. People are getting COVID. Yeah. Like, I don't even really want this fucking job to begin with. Begin with. Right. So I can see that. And of course, it. Even to this day, COVID's gone because everything's okay now. But the guys that I talk to now will tell you, like, bro, it's like a state fucking facility. You know what I'm saying?
200?
1,800 guys. They found 200.
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Chapter 3: What were the consequences of taking shortcuts?
In the old neighborhood.
Now this is a guy from the old neighborhood. Yeah. But I didn't know that. I didn't know we had a name.
Okay.
So he's calling us Batman and Robin. So I go, what's up with Batman and Robin? He goes, well, you don't belong here. He's telling us. You belong in East New York to 75. I said, oh, because what you do when you leave a command is you put your numbers on your belt. Oh, you can see the numbers on my belt? He goes, no. I didn't even see them on your belt. He goes, you pulled me over up on –
I forget if it was Eldred's.
Eldred's and Fulton. Right before Fulton, between Atlantic and Fulton. I looked at him. I go, Burgundy 280ZX? Right. He goes, yep. I go, I tossed you. You had nothing on you, the car. He goes, you missed it. What guy's telling me? He says there was 10 kilos in the car. You missed it. I want to kill him.
Right.
I knew he was. I knew he had it, but nowhere. He said it was in the wheel well. He said, you were on it. You were checking. He said, but you should have pulled the wheel well cover off. It was in there.
He's telling me where his fucking dope was.
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Chapter 4: How did drug dealers interact with cops?
Of course, it did go away for a minute. I calmed, I turned away from it. I told you in the beginning of this conversation. I dried up, I cleaned up, I did the right thing, and then... I just couldn't live on the money anymore. And like, you know, that's again, the opportunity. I had the opportunity. I had the need because of the money.
And I created the need because I, I ended up with four homes and a condo on the ocean in Myrtle beach. And, you know, so it was, I created a situation that was untenable for a guy on my salary. I was getting rental incomes. Don't get me wrong, but you know, I became so used to the extra money, you know, you know, when you don't have that extra thousand in your pocket, like feel naked, you know?
So yeah.
You used to be able to buy everything that you want.
Yeah, nothing stopped me. I wasn't a big extravagant guy, but the vet didn't help when I parked in the lieutenant spot. But I did that for a reason. People, oh, that was a stupid move. No, it wasn't. Think about it. I did it in 1987. I parked in 88. I parked in the lieutenant spot.
So you're driving a Corvette and you parked in the lieutenant spot.
Brand new. Right. With the sticker in the window still. Yeah. But I did it on purpose.
Why?
And it served its purpose at the time. Because I kept hearing, they're coming for me. They're coming for me. They're coming for me. And I'm like, well, get me, motherfuckers. I'm sick of this. You know what it's like when they're coming and you're not there? You live the life like you're getting caught every day. Because I'm waiting. I'm looking over my shoulder every day.
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