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  • 2020-02-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Did One Group of Undercover Cops Try to Arrest Other Undercover Cops? (en)
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  • Law enforcement officials who work in an undercover capacity often run the risk of being placed in danger if those they're trying to fool learn their true identities. But sometimes undercover cops can inadvertently put themselves in harm's way by playing their roles too well, as suggested in the following meme: This farce played out on Detroit's east side in November 2017, although it wasn't quite as simple as the above meme, and several news accounts, made it sound. Special-operations officers from Detroit's 11th Precinct were preparing to execute a search warrant on a suspected drug house, but unbeknownst to them, cops from the department’s 12th Precinct were operating within the 11th Precinct’s territory. This intersection of two different groups of police who had not coordinated with or made their presence known to each other set the stage for chaos. First, two special-ops officials from the 11th Precinct encountered two undercover cops from the 12th Precinct who were posing as drug dealers, and the former attempted to detain the latter. Then, while 11th Precinct officers were executing their search warrant on the suspected drug house, a separate team of cops from the 12th Precinct stormed into the house before it could be secured, triggering a confused brawl between the two groups: Footage from one of the officers' body cameras captured part of the fracas between the two groups of officers: According to one report, the incident involved two dozen police officers altogether, one of whom was taken to a hospital: Contrary to the wording of the meme presented above, we found nothing documenting that undercover police from the 11th Precinct were posing as drug buyers. A couple of 11th Precinct officers unknowingly encountered undercover cops from the 12th Precinct who were posing as drug dealers and attempted to detain them, but the former were on the scene because they were part of a group of officers attempting to execute a search warrant on a suspected drug house, not because they were engaged in an undercover operation that had them posing as drug buyers. (en)
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