Disgraced BPD Detective: Supervisors Tolerated Corruption

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A disgraced former Baltimore City Police detective testified that supervisors condoned fraud and misconduct in the specialized, plainclothes units he worked, as long as officers were making arrests and taking illegal guns off the streets.
Detective Maurice Ward faced tough cross examination by attorneys representing his former partners in the now-defunct Gun Trace Task Force, Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor.
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