Cop Down: Shot During a Drug Arrest by a Sniper, The True Story
West Palm Beach, Fl - A planned drug arrest in Mississippi was supposed to be controlled. Instead, it became a deadly ambush. As state narcotics officers moved in to make the arrest, a sniper positioned on a nearby hill allegedly opened fire with a rifle. Bullets tore through the scene. One police officer was shot three times and barely survived. An armed drug dealer was also struck. Listen to this free episode of the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast. For Merle Temple and his fellow agents, the attack exposed the extraordinary risk and danger they faced during America’s first war on drugs. This happened in the 1970s, before the bulletproof vest became standard equipment in police work. Temple’s unit reportedly had only two vests, and they almost left them behind. Temple, a former captain with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, tells the true story on the Law Enforcement Talk Radio Show and Podcast. His career would later inspire a series of books filled with cr...