Los Angeles isn't California's only city with police corruption - a Pasadena officer has written a tell-all book describing sexual and other corruption inside the force he's served for 23 years, and it's gotten him suspended for his trouble.
Naum Ware's self-published book changes names, but it hasn't stopped his fellow officers from hiring professional counselors to help them cope, according to Reuters. And the book has also touched off a public debate over whether he should be thrown off the force entirely.
Ware tells of sexual harassment, accepting sex in return for fixing tickets, one officer soliciting prostitutes, a sergeant raping a police cadet, and other corruption in the Pasadena Police Department in his book, The Rose Garden. He was suspended in late February.
The department says Ware was suspended because the book contains "many hateful remarks" about women and gays from Ware himself, not because he spoke of department corruption, thought the department says the book may violate the department code of conduct.
But Ware says it's a matter of his First Amendment rights - and the Southern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is willing to back him up on that. He also says he can support what he says in the book with notes and other documentation, according to Reuters.
The self-published book is reported to have sold about 400 copies in local book stores.
