Two South Florida Cops arrested after making drug bust

When I read this article I just feel like we have drug rehab centers for nothing. Policemen are doing their best to catch drug dealers and they get thrown to prison. I understand that they might not acted by the book, but still, we are talking about drug dealers here.

For you non-LEO verified individuals who are saying that the police are above the law, you're are the biggest losers. You are no better than the drug pushing POS.

We don't need liars and people who break the law to get justice.

I am sure the officer and detective were good cops. They survived several years on the department. One a detective and one a 'senior' road officer. What they tried to do was done wrong. Someone called the third officer a rat and probably never spent a day in the street or chased someone. The news report advised that the third officer was a School Resource Officer. That job is not given to someone who has not made arrests. How many officers volunteer for that job? I was an SRO and guys I worked with and knew from other departments told me that was the ONE JOB they would never want. One cop for perhaps 1000 - 2500+ students?? And before you ask, it was my job my last seven of my thirty-three years. Now, at the scene, there was a detective there. In departments I know of they are supervisors with a corresponding uniform rank of Corporal or Sergeant. Was the third officer right or was he wrong? If the third officer was wrong then the first two were right to falsefy a police report. Perhaps when the third officer said something to whomever, the first two were asked if the report was correct or did they want to change anything. A good supervisor would do this for his people. If they said no, that the report they wrote was correct, then they screwed up. Sooner or later, and probably in court, the truth would have somehow come out and then how would it look that the officers lied under oath? We have all bent a couple of things in our carreer but how many down right lied? And what did we, not even considering the public, what did/do we think of them? If any of my brothers or sisters lie to me about an investigation, how can I trust them anymore? What do you do when John Doe Citizen lies to you about a crime or about you in a crime?

Yes it was dumb to lie, and they should have been counseled as to proper procedures - perhaps a suspension had they not falsified the report. I never falsified a report or planted evidence, but I did bend a few laws, accomplished my goal, got a couple of letters in my jacket, and was never a favorite of upper level supervision - but I enforced the laws equally and fairly - It was never personal ( well except the guy who tried to run me over while helping a murder suspect escape and the judge gave him 3 years probation)
Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Play it straight and let the cards fall where they will.

Never lie. That is one of those things that wiull get your badge, and possibly locked up, quicker than anything else. They had the time to obtain a warrant or find some legal reason to enter the Apt. Heck even if they did what they did and had not lied about it they would still have a job and not have been arrested. Yelled at for screwing the investigation up maybe but not arrested! Rule #1, DO NOT LIE!

WOW NO MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW, AND NO MAN IS BELOW THE LAW!

I don't see why they rushed to get into the apartment rather than wait for a warrant. The guy they busted wasn't going anywhere and they could of had a marked unit sit on the apartment while a warrant was obained. Their thriftyness became their downfall in the end. By the book cannot be repeated enough!