By Michael Douglas Carlin

 

There is money to be made. There are also the lives of innocent men targeted by corrupt police who sit currently in prison that deserve their freedom. Attorneys will be needed to sort through all of the rubble of ruined lives in the aftermath of so much drug trafficking and scandalous behavior under the color of authority, men who used guns and badges to profiteer and eliminate enemies or anybody that even looked like a threat.

 

When any police officer takes a plea deal for corrupt behavior every single case they touched must be looked at and weighed in light of possible corrupt motivations. Men and women targeted by corrupt cops under color of authority may have severe financial consequences for the city, county or state. It isn’t a prospect that is cheap for governments, but it certainly is the right thing to do for those that have been targeted.

 

When rumors of me poking into cases associated with two corrupt officers, charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, surfaced I received a call from a community leader admonishing me not to look at individual cases. I was told, "We will get to them eventually through prison reform.”

 

Have you ever been on the phone with someone that is a "throw-away”? A corrupt cop would look for a "throw-away” who lacked education, didn’t have a strong family, and could never successfully navigate the legal system. Some of the men that I have been speaking with in prison fit this profile. They have not had adequate representation and have no understanding of the law. They were perfect people to pin crimes on. Until I began asking around in Compton for cases that residents knew about where the crimes had been widely known to have been perpetrated by other people, nobody had ever looked into their cases.

 

One man has been sitting in prison on a three strikes case that includes his time in juvenile hall but he was an All American Football Player at the time. His Jacket (code for his case files) has been padded with other men’s cases. Another man was in Mississippi at the time the murder he was convicted of happened in Los Angeles. Another man had a dispute over a car sale with the head of the Compton Police Department gang unit and ended up getting a murder pinned on him. A father and son both sit in prison because this same cop had an affair with the wife/mother and wanted them out of the picture. And the final man I have investigated is charged with two murders in Compton that happened within five minutes of each other with different sets of guns, on opposite sides of town, and using different cars. It would have been impossible for him to commit both crimes.

 

Sound far-fetched?

 

Every claim can be documented and one of the former cops in question just admitted on a livestream that he put people away. "I wish y’all really knew me. I didn’t need protection from n*gg*s I would institutionalize a mother fuc*er if I felt threatened by anybody if you want to know the real. A n*gg* would have went to jail for a long time fuc*in’ with me.”

 

Pretty bold statement especially since he is waiting for sentencing for his very own drug trafficking and money laundering case. But Reggie Wright Jr. can afford to be bold because the U.S. Attorney and Judges handling his case have given him every possible break. His father was also arrested in the same case. A.U.S.A. Andrew Brown actually interlineated on Reggie Sr.’s bond that if Reggie violated the terms of his release that the bond would still be returned.

 

Now why would the U.S. Government be so accommodating of a pair of drug smugglers?

 

Could it be that they secretly approved of the drug trafficking and money laundering in Compton?

 

Why does a city of 10 square miles need 6 military surplus police helicopters?

 

When one of those helicopters crashed in 2000 a witness said there were kilos of cocaine at the crash site. Add to this the missing evidence from the Compton police evidence locker, over sixty kilos of cocaine, and we are beginning to see a pattern emerge. The Rampart Scandal ties into these two corrupt cops as they had those same Rampart Scandal Cops working for them previously. That scandal cost the city of Los Angeles over 100 million dollars. The scandal was successfully walled off from further investigation. Now this investigation threatens to reopen Rampart as these cops have ties back into this horrific time in LAPD history.

 

LAPD Detective Fred Miller while interviewing former Death Row Records Bodyguard Kevin Hackie about Reggie Wright Jr.’s involvement in the Christopher Wallace Murder, said that Wright controlled the drug trade in Compton. It was a preposterous claim back then but seems much less preposterous now that we have the conviction out of Tennessee in case #2:17-CR-20151-JTF. It also, makes the Compton Police Corruption Report seem even more credible when it detailed that Reggie Wright Jr.’s name was listed in the pay/owe book of a reputed drug dealer and that Reggie Wright Sr. was always obsessed with knowing where the raids were going to happen the day before they occurred. There are other sources on this same information that paint a picture that pre-raids were done so they could control what would be found in the official raids.

 

Compton residents report that it was widely known that one of these men worked with a crew of people to rob drug dealers of the money and drugs. Who are the drug dealers going to report this to? It was simply seen as a tax on the drug dealers as depicted in the movie "Training Day.”

 

There was the disbanding of the Compton Police Department on allegations of corruption. The man that led that charge was warned by Police Chief Bernard Parks that he would be retaliated against. He was told to leave the department in place and to stay in his own lane. This was all prior to the Rampart Scandal exploding in the news. But this man was tired of murders being committed all over Los Angeles and having the bodies dumped in Compton to control the investigation. He was tired of the 100+ murders a year being committed in his city, so he stood up. Bernard Parks was right. The retaliation was brutal. Standing up for the people cost this man 20 years of his life but may have saved as many as 1500+ young lives.

 

The truth bubbles up over time. Now with these arrests and plea deals we have confirmation that Compton was a den of corruption. Drugs, guns, money, greed, and jealousy are very explosive elements that once sparked cannot be controlled.

 

When law enforcement reads suspects Miranda Rights advising remaining silent, the best course of action is to remain silent. Reggie Wright Jr. is enjoying his status as a celebrity granting interviews and disclosing details about some of what he participated in during his time as a cop and after he left the department. On one livestream he began by saying, "We have a lot to cover-up y’all.” On another livestream (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtz5LkAFySI) at 55:25:00 he admits he runs and hides from his involvement in the Christopher Wallace murder. At 1:55:00 he was a cop with a badge and a gun hanging out with millionaires. He gets Damon Thomas on the phone and wants to talk about Thomas’ marriage to Kim Kardashian. Later, 2:33:49, he brings up Thomas, who hung up on the interview previously, saying, "Everyone knows he was married to Kim Kardashian” and then he spills the beans on threesome photos used to extort Kardashian in a divorce settlement.

 

At 1:52:00 Reggie gives up pure gold for the inmates sitting innocent in prison and for all of you attorneys out there that want to cash in, "I wish y’all really knew me. I didn’t need protection from n*gg*s I would institutionalize a mother fuc*er if I felt threatened by anybody if you want to know the real. A n*gg* would have went to jail for a long time fuc*in’ with me.” What?! He just admitted to pinning cases on people he didn’t like or felt threatened by?

 

How many other cases did he pin on people? These cases are simply the few that I have uncovered. There must be a thousand inmates, sitting in prison innocent of the charges they were convicted of, associated with all of the corrupt Compton Police Officers implicated in my investigation. There must be hundreds of millions of dollars to win in court awards or settlements. The courts will be busy litigating the past as they always are. Tell your kids it is a great time to get into the legal profession.

 

 

Investigations like this are very expensive. If there is anyone that wants to donate to help me keep this work going, please send checks to Michael Carlin PO Box 34664, Los Angeles, CA 90034.