According to a federal complaint, New York City bars and nightclubs paid protection money to James Caban, and in return, Caban got police to go easy on them. He did this by impersonating his twin brother—a police commissioner at the time—at the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights to stop raids on those businesses for breaking the law.
Two police officers in England waited outside a woman's house while her husband killed her. The same officers had come to the house the day before and arrested him for assault, but he was let out on bail that night. The next day, when the officers came back to take the woman's statement, they heard an assault taking place inside but spent 35 minutes talking to their supervisor about whether they could go in. By the time they finally entered, the woman was dead. One officer and the supervisor face an investigation for incompetence, while the other officer has left the force.
