“I tarnished the badge and I let...
“I tarnished the badge and I let down the community.”
--Former Los Angeles Police Detective Richard Herman Ford, 47, who was sentenced to prison for attempting to murder an exotic dancer and robbing a Northridge jewelry store with another policeman.
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