A real life "Training Day"

A fun read can be found here, from the FOXNews website.

It seems that Mr. Hick's was operating a corrupt police organization not unlike the one portrayed in the Academy award winning movie Training Day. From the article:

Authorities say Hicks wasn't interested in busting bad guys in those raids — he was after the drugs instead, and allegedly kept the money and sold the seized cocaine and marijuana to rival dealers. None of those rotten raids netted any arrests, and officials say kept it up for almost a decade until he and his accomplices were picked up in an undercover sweep in 2001.

This is how it came apart for Hicks:

For nearly 10 years, feds say, this crew robbed and extorted hundreds of pounds of marijuana and kilograms of cocaine, telling their targets they were DEA task force officers even as they robbed them blind. But on April 20, 1999, one bust went wrong, and it started the investigation that would bring them down two years later.

According to press reports, a drug dealer was on the phone with his girlfriend in Alsip, Ill., when his house was raided by Hicks' crew. The woman thought her boyfriend was being attacked, and she called local police. They arrived on the scene to find Hicks & co., who offered a cover story the cops found suspicious.

Mr. Hicks is on the lamb, and I bet he has a little bit of cash he never told the IRS about.