It was not just him.
It was his supervisors as well.
That's what I get, too. A high bust/conviction rate, makes the brass happy, and not so finicky about how it's done as long as the results look good. Somewhere in the system there was a willingness to look the other way, and this has become institutionalized. Now that the lid is off, someone is going to get thrown to the wolves.
But the problem I have is the whole anonymous snitch thing goes pretty hard against the right to face your accuser. The words of someone the accused may not know, have never heard of, who may not even know the accused (mistaken identity, or hearsay) are taken as gospel, Any thing can follow from that from having children taken away to having your door kicked in at all hours and being shot for trying to defend your home against an unknown assailant. One pissy neighbor can get you killed.
I also take issue with calling this a "botched drug raid", about like calling Fast and Furious a "botched gun tracking" operation or a 'botched sting operation'. If something is done on false premises, it is an illegitimate action, not 'botched'. Saying it went wrong, instead of it
was wrong, gives the action an undeserved air of legitimacy from the start. This sure appears to have been conducted under false pretenses, an egregious violation of 4th and, ultimately, 5th amendment Rights, and other enumerated Rights under the Constitution.
