DC Cop caught in drug case
I want to be clear right at the beginning, this is not representative of the DC police force. I’ve known good Metro officers and I’ve seen DC Police who do their jobs as well as any police department. However, in many cases, hiring for the Metro Police Department is nothing more than a jobs program;
Officer Tamara McGuire, a three-year Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer assigned to the 2nd District until she was placed on administrative leave in May, lived with co-defendant Arthur Elliott III and their young child with “full knowledge of Mr. Elliott’s drug dealing activities,” according to court documents.
“She acted as lookout and warned Elliott of police presence.”
How does someone like this get past the initial screening process? A single mother with a drug-dealing boyfriend.
Like I said, there are good cops in DC, but back a few years ago, when Chief Ramsey tried to call a police emergency to react to criminal activity increases, Many officers complained that they couldn’t work nights because they couldn’t find a babysitter during those hours and the unions got Ramsey to back off of law enforcement during the hours of actual criminal activity.
The new police chief has overcome some of these problems, but I have to think that this drug dealing officer was hired during Chief Cathy Lanier’s tenure.
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As I am going through the motions in the application process for a few departments right now, I feel I should drop my $0.02. There really isn’t any way she should have gotten into the department, unless she has never used them herself, or started out squeaky clean and met the dbag later, once she was already a “Cop”.