The Los Angeles Times has found a memo from the city of Bell's Police department which suggests officers there treated ticketing cars and impounding them like a game. Jeff Gottlieb, one of the lead reporters on the Bell corruption story joins us.
Bell police played games with drivers, memo finds
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