Corrupt Cop: I Had Sex With Girls In My Police Car, Arrested Drug Dealers, Then Sold Their Drugs!

TL;DR

Michael Dowd, a former NYPD officer, describes a decade-long career of corruption that began with small bribes and escalated to protecting drug organizations, selling seized drugs, and earning more than the U.S. president. He attributes his actions to systemic disincentives against arrests (budget-driven overtime costs), a pervasive "blue wall of silence," and his own pursuit of money and control.

Key insights

• The NYPD actively discouraged drug arrests because each crack arrest incurred 18 hours of overtime, straining the budget; officers were told directly to stop making arrests to keep patrols on the stre
• Dowd committed thousands of crimes — robbery, extortion, burglary, drug dealing — but rationalized that he still provided good police service to law-abiding citizens, creating a dichotomy where "if yo
• The "blue wall of silence" is not absolute; the first person to snitch is often another cop, but officers avoid reporting because they need mutual survival backup on the street.