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Here in Australia - I’ve heard of police corruption, but never heard of corrupt police forming a gang. I can’t remember hearing anything about that in the UK or New Zealand or Canada either. Is this another one of those “only in America” things?

Well, I’m sure not only in America-a lot of developing countries I wouldn’t be surprised if such things existed too-but not the countries the US would want to be compared to

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> never heard of corrupt police forming a gang. I can’t remember hearing anything about that in the UK or New Zealand or Canada either.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I can certainly speak to that effect as a Canadian aware of at least one similar 'police gang'

> I can certainly speak to that effect as a Canadian aware of at least one similar 'police gang'

What’s it called? Where is it?

York Regional Police, for one.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/02/24/massive-gta-mafi...

https://www.cp24.com/news/two-york-region-cops-charged-in-co...

Neither article mentions a "deputy gang". It just talks about ordinary police misconduct and corruption, which happens anywhere. It never mentions corrupt police forming a gang with an identifiable name, emblem, membership, etc – which is something I've never heard of outside of the US.

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