Wire Tap: the Documentary, takes you into a security nightmare. In a highly technological world, the police are always advancing the boundaries of what they can use to penetrate the criminal veil. At their disposal are the tools of a paranoid bureaucracy dedicated to financing its lust for power with the spoils of illegal narcotics and incarceration of the youth. The best laid plans of the Patriot Act have made a giant loophole in wire surveillance, which can call into account everyone in America as a possible part of a narcotics organization.
We begin with the story of the wire tap case that changed the face of criminal investigation in America, and yet it came from one of the least likely places, in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado. Xavier Davis, aka Boozilla or Zaboo, planted the seeds of West Coast Hip Hop, gang life, and easy drug money. It was in this new and ripe environment that he would also lay the foundations of a legal music business that would stretch a nation wide and give hope to many local artists struggling for notoriety.
In the music business, Boozilla cultivated an image, and that image drew the attention of the authorities. In an investigation that lasted less than 3 months, the State of Colorado ended up convicting Xavier Davis, and several others who may have been nothing more than legal business associates, on charges of "Conspiracy".
Who gets caught in these wire tap investigations of "front" businesses? Not just the dealers and sellers of illegal narcotics! Due to the nature of front businesses, codes are meant to sound like standard business deals. The dry cleaner who also sells drugs might use "detergent" as a code for cocaine. Now anytime authorities hear "detergent" on a wiretap they assume a person is speaking about narcotics. Deciphering these codes help police to put away the "Bad Guys". So if police are starting to take "everyday words" and turn them into codes for narcotics, then will they start taking "everyday people" to jail for being drug dealers?
