Police Corruption

A police chief popping pills from the evidence room, a sheriff slinging meth, and that's just the lowlights.

More asset forfeiture problems in Texas, plus a typical weekly rogues' gallery of dirty cops.

A state trooper transporting marijuana, a pair of cops ripping off drug cash, a constable smuggling across the Mexican border, and a cop with a bad pain pill habit make this week's hall of shame.

Two of our four bad apples this week come from the Big Apple, one for planting drugs and one for transporting them. Of the other two, one picked the wrong friends and the other picked the wrong wife.

More dope-dealin' and/or sticky-fingered cops this week, plus a tweaker judge gets sentenced.

Lead us not into temptation with seized cash, nearby evidence rooms, and the perks of police powers, amen. A few law enforcement officers haven't heard the prayer.

Jailers smuggling drugs in burritos, cops planting drugs, cops doing security for drug deals, and evidence walking out of the evidence room. It's just another week of police misconduct in the drug war.

Cops continue to have problems keeping their hands off the drugs they come across. And they're developing problems with prescription pills, too.

There has been no holiday break in Mexico's prohibition-related mayhem, but it's now looking like 2011's death toll is going to be down from last year.

The Chronicle may have taken a week off, but drug prohibition-related police corruption didn't. Here is two weeks worth of corrupt cops.