With three plainclothes officers from the Mission District Station under investigation for their conduct in drug arrests, Captain Greg Corrales decided Tuesday afternoon to boost morale among his troops.
So he put on his “raggedy clothes” and went down to the BART plaza to catch some drug dealers trying to sell crack, he told residents at Tuesday night’s monthly community meeting.
At first, he said, the situation was a little awkward, because two BART officers patrolled the scene, making any selling unlikely.
“I had to ask them to leave the plaza for a couple of minutes, and being an old undercover officer — well not old, seasoned — I was able to make a couple of crack buys out at Mission Street and five people were arrested for sales.”
Only one guy wanted to put up a fight.
Corrales said he wanted to let his officers know that they should continue to go full speed in their anti-narcotic operations.
“As long as we do everything lawfully and ethically, Jeff Adachi can say whatever he wants,” Corrales said in reference to the public defender’s investigation that has resulted in more than 100 cases, nearly all drug-related, being dropped.
The investigations have called into question the credibility of the officers involved. Corrales said that three officers from the Mission Station have been transferred to the operations center while the investigation is ongoing.
Adachi’s office said in a press release last week that five Mission Station officers are “currently under investigation for illegal searches, perjury and theft.”
Corrales said that only the three assigned to operations were involved in multiple cases.
Just last week, Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing dismissed 26 more cases after Adachi provided videotape that appeared to contradict earlier testimony from the officers about a drug arrest in April 2010.
Regardless of the investigation, the Mission Station will continue its narcotic operations, Corrales said.
f**k the pigs, especially mission station. racist, homophobic, classist assholes who arent doing shit to protect and respect the people, just lock folks up and send em away, changing nothing about the neighborhood and doing nothing to promote real community safety and self-determination!
OK, got it. This is your rant you’ve written out on a 3 x 5 card in case someone hands you a loudspeaker. I’m impressed with your capacity to touch all the bases so succinctly. But does it make any sense?