51. Community leaders accused the officers of shouting racial slurs. 52. Drug addicts on the force are not systematically tested, and officers are sometimes accused of involvement in serious crimes. 53. Fifty-four other officers were also accused of abusing their authority. 54. Four officers were accused of falsifying police reports and framing gang members. 55. Four other officers are accused of beating Abner Louima after the Haiti-born man was arrested during a melee outside a Brooklyn nightclub last August. 56. He accused senior officers of calling off soldiers to allow the guerrillas to escape. 57. He accused fellow officers of planting evidence, shooting suspects and perjuring themselves. 58. He knew that officers had been accused of arresting women on bogus charges and offering to drop the cases in return for dates. 59. He accused former officers who described how prisoners were thrown from planes into the Atlantic, drugged but alive, of having political motives. 60. High-ranking military officers have been accused of tolerance and complicity with the paramilitaries, and some AUC officers are U.S.-trained former army soldiers. |