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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by throwaway0a5e on Thursday June 11, 2020 @06:50AM (#23487404)
>is there a reason to believe that might be a possible scenario here?

It is not unheard of for drug task forces to augment their official income by robbing drug dealers. I wanna say one of the major cities in CA had a task force that got into trouble for this as did IIRC Newark and Baltimore (pretty sure it was them but not 100%). It's definitely A Thing(TM). There was at least one story of a particularity systemic case that hit HN.

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Re:Breonna Taylor case: Louisville police nearly blank incid... by throwaway6734 on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:19AM (#23488017)
Yep in Baltimore the Guns Task Force was robbing drug dealers and then reselling the drugs. You can read more about it here: http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/gun-trace-overview/
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