Its the standard deal in any sort of action in an organization that draws media attention, that is you need to search for a scapegoat be it the guy who loaded the powder on the battleship or steroids in the NJ police department.

This is always the actions of those involved to protect their organizations practices and procedures and to sacrifice the lowest person on the totem pole. Standard Operating Procedure 101. Most police departments nationwide are in huge need of a major revamping of the psycholigical atmosphere that has become standard operating procedure, all you need to do is to look at any of the Cops type shows to get an idea of the sick fukin behaviour that passes for police work.

In this case steroids are the devil that will draw the eye of the media, not the police department management that allows this subculture to exist where steroids are only a tentacle of the octupus of corruption. I have been out of drugs for 20 years but thats not nearly long enough to let you know what was common knowlege about the NJ state police ( I would love to decribe the relationship between NJ state and DC police but to say there was one that can not be discussed is as far as I can go) suffice to say both police departments are in major need of overhauls from the top down, while those at the top may not be directly involved in illegal activity ( I was never in a position to know) the policies that were put in place by them or allowed to continue under their command created an environment of corruption that was rampant in both departments. As one example in DC in their infinate liberal wisdom the records of juvenilles were sealed even from use by the police in their hiring policies....during this time their were kids who had been arrested over and over for slinging rock (cocaine sales) and gang violence who were applying and being accepted to police training on thier 18th birthdays while they were incarcerated in juvenille detention centers (sic) this kind of rampant moronic policy was the norm in DC and lesser examples of punks with guns who are employed as police officers exists in every city these days. I know many veteren police officers who share this opinion some who have taken early retirement they are so sick of it.

FFM