CrimLaw

Police - The Bad:

(1) Here's what happens in the U.K. to officers who set up illegal wiretaps to listen to conversations between attorneys and clients: "[T]he three officers who set up the bugs had received written warnings and a further eight had been given informal warnings."

(2) "Edward T. Norris, who became Maryland police superintendent after a celebrated crime-fighting record in New York City and Baltimore, resigned on Wednesday after he was indicted on charges of using a Baltimore Police Department charity fund to pay for gifts, private travel and visits with girlfriends."

(3) "Pamela J. Dickens, 47, [a State prison guard] was arrested Friday after a six-month investigation by the Department of Corrections. Officials had received a tip that she was having the affair and trying to get her husband, also a prison guard, killed."