Bad Officer's Career Finally Ends
A federal judge told William White that charges against him would probably mark a "dismal end" to his career in law enforcement. The question is why that career didn't end years ago.
White planted evidence on a suspect in a drug arrest. He was fired, as he should have been, but the police union helped him get his job back. Later in his career, White pointed his gun at a group of children as he berated them with racial epithets. He kept his job despite community outrage. Still later, he was sued for beating a 13-year-old. None of that was enough to end his career at the New Haven Police Department.
It took the FBI to uncover White's latest wrongdoing.
In what prosecutors said was the most damning evidence, Lieutenant White took $27,500 from a car that he believed was part of a drug bust in January, according to the affidavit. Over and over, he said that he did not want to hurt the informant or get caught on film. But in the end, he covered his face and took the money, writing the word “estúpido” on one of the bags that held the cash to make it seem that the car had been robbed (he first called several people to find out how to spell the word “stupid” in Spanish, the affidavit said).
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