Big Guns: When Cops Use Steroids "Holy Crap"

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Big Guns: When Cops Use Steroids
Steroid Abuse Can Contribute to Police Brutality -- Even Murder
By MARC LALLANILLA

May. 23, 2005 - Amid the furor over steroid use by superstar athletes like baseball's Jose Canseco and Jason Giambi, another story is quietly unfolding in small towns and big cities across America -- cops on steroids.

From New York City to Norman, Okla., police departments are investigating a growing number of incidents involving uniformed police officers who are using steroids to build beefy, muscular physiques.

Police departments are concerned because it is illegal in the United States to possess steroids without a prescription. They are listed by the Drug Enforcement Agency as a Schedule III substance, like morphine, opium, barbiturates and other prescription drugs.

But there is an even greater problem: violent, aggressive behavior, a common side effect of steroids, can contribute to police brutality -- even murder.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/print?id=775659

[FlemingsGhost]

1. Cops breaking the law ... What else is new?

God Bless America.

[applegrove]

2. What about the side effect & long term health?

[Jack_DeLeon]

3. Police have small dicks?

ya dont say.

[applegrove]

4. Lovely! n/t

[oasis]

5. Just wait till the "military duty in Iraq" guys join the force. Hoooboy.

[thecai]

6. A Sheriff In My County...

...went inside a tanning salon to arrest the owner's son, the sheriff beat the guy up in front of women and a 6 year old girl (who was terrified). When witnesses called the Sheriff's office to file complaints they were told "we've never had any complaints against him...he's never done anything like that" and basically brushed off the complaints. Later it was discovered the Sheriff's office had had numerous complaints filed and the brutal Sheriff had tested positive for steroids.
I've also noticed that more Law Enforcement are "more buffed" than ever before, so I would not be surprised if steroids are commonplace in LE.
Steroids do make people hostile, moody, mean, and aggressive, which is not a good quality for police.