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INTRODUCING: The Burden | Bad Cops

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Baltimore, Maryland likes to call itself Charm City. But you have to wonder: Is the nickname ironic? Consider one of the city's star cops, a sergeant so accomplished that he earned his own nickname, the Golden Boy. But Golden Boy led a double life. Said one of those who encountered him in the street. "I was robbed by the Baltimore City Police….with a gun … armed robbery." No one believed the allegation. Then a GPS tracker was discovered where it shouldn't have been; next, a wiretap went up on a cop's phone. An FBI agent couldn't believe what she was hearing. Are these guys  gangsters? And then … an insider turned witness. "Like Rambo said, burn it down. And that's what I did." Welcome to Charm City, where it was sometimes difficult to tell the protectors from the predators. A podcast from Orbit Media reported and produced by the BBC and hosted by Jessica Lussenhop. ** Listen to Bad Cops: https://podcasts.apple.com/am/podcast/the-burden/id1734312219 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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True Story Media Welcome to Baltimore, Maryland, a city where you can't always tell the protectors from the predators. I shook my head like I must be looking at like did I mix the files that like this can't possibly be right. Seared up in my car and reversed they stopped ramming my car back. These guys did this they had to have. I was robbed by a Baltimore city police. I'm right. I was a cop from 14 years and I was the best. The best in the city, the golden boy. Golden boy, he was the best at a lot of things. Delivering pharmacies, I mean, I mean there's not too many people they can do that, but he could. They're 1930 style gangsters as far as officer. He's dangerous.

You know what I mean? I know that. None of it's true. None of it. This is the story of golden boy and the childhood friend who helped take him down. As Rambo says, you drew first blood and here we go. Now we're going to burn it down and that's what I did. Urban Media presents the burden. Bad cops. A podcast by BBC that asks how to good cops turn bad. Listen on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube at Orbit Media FM.

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