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Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love

por Wendy Ruderman

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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a Pulitzer Prize . In 2003, Benny Martinez became a Confidential Informant for a member of the Philadelphia Police Department's narcotics squad, helping arrest nearly 200 drug and gun dealers over seven years. But that success masked a dark and dangerous reality: the cops were as corrupt as the criminals they targeted. In addition to fabricating busts, the squad systematically looted mom-and-pop stores, terrorizing hardworking immigrant owners. One squad member also sexually assaulted three women during raids. Frightened for his life, Martinez turned to Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker. Busted chronicles how these two journalists--both middle-class working mothers--formed an unlikely bond with a convicted street dealer to uncover the secrets of ruthless kingpins and dirty cops. Professionals in an industry shrinking from severe financial cutbacks, Ruderman and Laker had few resources--besides their own grit and tenacity--to break a dangerous, complex story that would expose the rotten underbelly of a modern American city and earn them a Pulitzer Prize. A page-turning thriller based on superb reportage, illustrated with eight pages of photos, Busted is modern true crime at its finest. … (mais)
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Wendy Ruderman's book "Busted" started slowly for me. I expected the book to focus specifically on the story of "... Corruption and Betrayal" in the Philadelphia police department. But instead I found I was reading more about the lives of the two female reporters. But I gradually bought into the book, and began to appreciate the work and the story of the reporters and how they went about investigating and detailing the police corruption they uncovered. So while the book is not focused solely on the police corruption itself, it does blend that story along with how brave and resourceful the reporters were as they went about tracking down leads and witnesses. Eventually, their newspaper series, "Tainted Justice", led to their winning a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Journalism.

Unfortunately, if you accept the veracity of their reporting, nothing came of their work. While their investigation uncovered dozens of victims and witnesses, including finding security tapes showing the police misdeeds, the policemen involved haven't lost their jobs. Witnesses apparently were never interviewed by the grand jury, and the prosecutor didn't file charges, so the policemen were allowed to keep their jobs. So the only people who lost out were the reporters themselves who end up being accused of dragging the good name of these fine police officers through the mud.

As we've seen in many other locales, it's very difficult to remove a tainted police officer from a department for misconduct. Maybe that's a good thing in most cases, since the police, by the nature of their job, are bound to make enemies of the individuals they arrest. And any number of false accusations could be made against the overwhelming number of honest and hard working policemen. However, if the evidence against a policeman is as strong as Ruderman makes it sound, something should have come of their work. The strength of the police unions, a blue-wall of silence among members of the department, a fear of witnesses to testify, and cozy relationship with the prosecutor and police often combine to allow a bad officer to remain on the job. And that's not a story unique to the City of Brotherly Love.

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  rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |
A great story about a story. The book traces the background that lead to the Pulitzer Prize winning story of Tainted Justice. The reporters uncovered corruption and bad cops in the Philadelphia police department. ( )
  dougcornelius | Aug 5, 2014 |
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In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a Pulitzer Prize . In 2003, Benny Martinez became a Confidential Informant for a member of the Philadelphia Police Department's narcotics squad, helping arrest nearly 200 drug and gun dealers over seven years. But that success masked a dark and dangerous reality: the cops were as corrupt as the criminals they targeted. In addition to fabricating busts, the squad systematically looted mom-and-pop stores, terrorizing hardworking immigrant owners. One squad member also sexually assaulted three women during raids. Frightened for his life, Martinez turned to Philadelphia Daily News reporters Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker. Busted chronicles how these two journalists--both middle-class working mothers--formed an unlikely bond with a convicted street dealer to uncover the secrets of ruthless kingpins and dirty cops. Professionals in an industry shrinking from severe financial cutbacks, Ruderman and Laker had few resources--besides their own grit and tenacity--to break a dangerous, complex story that would expose the rotten underbelly of a modern American city and earn them a Pulitzer Prize. A page-turning thriller based on superb reportage, illustrated with eight pages of photos, Busted is modern true crime at its finest. 

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