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Total Misconduct

A True Story of Police and Political Corruption

by Samuel Clark

ISBN Number 0-9764929-2-X

This book presents a detailed account of corruption and official misconduct within the police department of the City of Newark, New Jersey.  To some, the shocking events described in this book may appear to be exaggerated.  Unfortunately, they are not.  Samuel Clark, a former police lieutenant and veteran police officer of more than 25 years, worked with a handful of brave police officers to expose the existence of wide spread police corruption in the Newark Police Department.  These officers presented documentary evidence of serious police corruption to local and state politicians, a county prosecutor, the State Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney General, and the FBI.  Nevertheless, no elected official or taxpayer funded law enforcement agency intervened to put an end to the corruption or to protect the whistle-blowing officers from retaliation.

            Why did elected officials and government law enforcement agencies ignore the evidence and the complaints of serious police corruption from over 26 credible and reliable police officers?  Samuel Clark provides facts, official police documents and report numbers, court transcript excerpts and case numbers, and newspaper accounts, enabling the reader to make his/her own conclusions.

Author Biography

Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Samuel Clark joined the Newark Police Department on November 20, 1972.  During his 25 years with the police department, Mr. Clark has worked as an officer in the patrol division, as a detective assigned to the juvenile bureau and has worked on all kinds of cases ranging from harassment to homicide.  He was promoted to the rank of sergeant in 1994 and to lieutenant in 1997.

In 1995 Mr. Clark, while on duty and serving in a supervisory capacity, suffered police brutality at the hands of a lower-ranking Newark police officer.  When the officer received a mere reprimand, Clark was prompted to investigate the policies and practices of the Newark Police Department.  Not only did he find that the police department had failed to terminate or properly sanction officers who had committed rape, assault, auto theft and other serious crimes; he also found that corruption and differential treatment pervaded the entire department.

When Clark attempted to fulfill his ethical and sworn responsibility to report corruption and differential treatment to his supervisors, they and other high-ranking police officials responded by slapping him with harsh sanctions.  Mr. Clark even appeared before the Newark Municipal Council and offered public testimony regarding the corruption he had uncovered.  The council, however, did little to stop the corruption or to protect Clark from retaliation.  On April 9, 1999, Mr. Clark was terminated from the police department. 

Mr. Clark is now retired from the police department and is currently living in Pennsylvania with his wife and daughter.  He is completing a degree in criminal justice and writing another book on police corruption.  He is also assisting victims of police misconduct and testifying in court cases of police misconduct.

"Never before has the systemic culture of police misconduct been so thoroughly described.   Lieutenant Clark's experiences and observations show why it will take a virtual revolution in police administration to change the ongoing culture of racism and corruption that plagues so many police departments."

Leon Grauer, Defense Attorney; Former Internal Affairs Prosecutor.