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In 1992, a number of Massachusetts police agencies were merged to form the
Massachusetts Department of State Police. Among the former agencies is the Metropolitan
District Commission’s Police Department (MDC). But, in 1980, when six men
dynamited their way into a bank in Medford, Massachusetts, the MDC was an active police department. Besides using dynamite to access the vault and getting away with an estimate $25 million in cash, diamonds
and gold, what makes this bank heist most unusual is that three of the robbers were police officers, including MDC Captain
Gerald Clemente.
While in prison for the robbery, Gerald Clemente penned The Cops are Robbers. In addition to giving the details of the robbery, Gerald Clemente tells how drugs,
gambling and greed exposed the near-perfect crime. Additionally, the book covers
other areas of police corruption such as “supervisors selling answers to exams to a large number of cops so they could
"buy" their promotion for $3,000, instead of earning it by studying.”
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