Cops, Cover-ups & Corruption by Bob Fitrakis

Cops, Cover-ups & Corruption (The Fitrakis Fby Bob FitrakisThe sixth volume in Bob Fitrakis's series of investigative anthologies turns to policing in Central Ohio and the corruption of high-ranking government officials — built, as the earlier volumes were, on documents leaked from police files and on the people willing to blow the whistle.Much of the reporting was done with the team at Columbus Alive, and the acknowledgements alone tell you the temperature of the work: a city attorney phoning the publisher to ask for the return of a file mistakenly handed over unredacted, and a publisher politely declining, then defending a story linking some of Ohio's most prominent families to crime and murder.Fitrakis is careful to note who his best sources were — police officers, usually more appalled by the corruption of a few in their ranks than he was, and who had to watch it daily. The Columbus chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police put his story on the chief on the cover of their newsletter.Investigative journalism from someone who kept the receipts.eBook (EPUB) · ISBN 9781622497157