Dirty Dallas Cop Gets 5 Years in Pen

Mark Delapaz, a former Dallas Police Department narcotics detective and one of the key figures in the Dallas fake drug scandal, was sentenced to five years in prison by a jury last week. Many of the innocent victims of the scandal, who were wrongly incarcerated by Delapaz and others, were very upset with the sentence. I would have thrown the book at the guy, too, but I think it's a huge victory just to get a Dallas County jury to send a police officer to the penitentiary. He's out on bond, pending his appeal. Most of his victims couldn't afford bond and so rotted away in jail for months or years before the scandal unravelled.