Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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Murder and Miami is a production of I Heart Radio.

We touched upon the potential for corruption that swirls around the drug trade in our last bonus.

It's a topic that came up with former Miami-Dade detective Jeff Lewis

and was particularly evident during Miami's darkest policing period in the late 1980s.

When at one point, nearly 10% of the entire Miami Police Department was suspended or fired after a drug-related scandal.

It seems to me like that was a perfect storm because you had this influx of drug money pouring into the area

and you had a need to increase the policing of it, just in terms of the sheer number of the volume of officers who were hired at that time and did that negatively impact the force.

I think it was both a positive and a negative, both heart apartment and the city of Miami Police Department.

We're in a rush to hire police officers to fill the void.

Both departments on a national recruiting effort.

And at that time also, I believe some departments up north, New York and that area they were laying off officers who kind of worked out.

And Miami-Dade ended up with officers from all over the north and northeast as well as the city of Miami, although I think the city of Miami ended up with more local individuals becoming police officers.

The problem with that was I don't think they were able to do thorough background investigations or really delve into who they were hiring just because they needed to fill the void.

As a result, individuals slipped through the cracks that turned out to be actually criminals don't police work.

That came to fruition later on with the River Cop's case scenario and some other incidents involving police officers.

Now the plus side was they also ended up hiring quite a few excellent police officers that I worked with, that came on with me, became detectives, or became ranking individuals within the department and were able to guide the department.

It was a plus and a negative.

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