Big Guns: When Cops Use Steroids

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Big Guns: When Cops Use Steroids


Steroid Abuse Can Contribute to Police Brutality -- Even Murder By MARC LALLANILLA

May 24, 2005 — Amid the furor over steroid use by superstar athletes like baseball's Jose Canseco and Jason Giambi, another story is quietly unfolding in small towns and big cities across America — cops on steroids.

From New York City to Norman, Okla., police departments are investigating a growing number of incidents involving uniformed police officers who are using steroids to build beefy, muscular physiques.



Numerous cases of police officers who abuse steroids have been found nationwide. (AP Graphics)

Police departments are concerned because it is illegal in the United States to possess steroids without a prescription. They are listed by the Drug Enforcement Agency as a Schedule III substance, like morphine, opium, barbiturates and other prescription drugs.

But there is an even greater problem: violent, aggressive behavior, a common side effect of steroids, can contribute to police brutality — even murder.




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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/story?id=775659&page=1

[Mutley]

1. You mean...

cops break laws? NO WAY!:crazy: :wow: :crazy: :eyes:

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2. Police on steroids: An emerging problem

Police on steroids:
An emerging problem

BY OSITA IROEGBU
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Jun 6, 2005


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MARK GORMUS/RTD
PETERSBURG -- Around midnight, Oct. 13, 2003, Petersburg police officers Michael A. Tweedy and David E. House stopped a driver to question him about a hit-and-run incident.

The driver, a meat worker named Lamont Cortez Koonce, ran away but was eventually tackled and doused with pepper spray.

As Koonce was on the ground and House was trying to handcuff him, authorities said, Tweedy accidentally sprayed himself and went into a rage.

According to Koonce's attorney, Tweedy kicked and stomped on Koonce's head repeatedly, walking away and then returning to continue the blows as Koonce lay motionless, gurgling his own blood.




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http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031783121417

[Mutley]

3. Well that's just lovely.

:sarcasm: I was being sarcastic in my first post too, just in case you didn't realize that.

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4. Aren't police officers subject to random drug tests?

like some of us other worker-bees?

[AngryAmish]

5. Most drops don't test for steroids

Just pot, opiates, speed, coke and psychedelics.

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