It feels like spring cleaning day in the Baltimore police department.

The man whose door cops broke down serving a drug warrant at the wrong house got word that the city would tear up the littering ticket he got for storing the broken door in his back yard -- after he had called bulk trash to pick it up. Seems the least they could do.

Then, we learn that the deputy major in the Eastern District has been cleared of wrongdoing after having been accused of sending text messages to (instead of arresting) a community activist charged in a warrant with beating his wife, who he was later charged with killing. Police still have deal with what a spokesman described as "procedural issues" in how the warrant ended up with police who knew the activist instead of with the regular warrant squad.

And we still have to figure out why two city officers on a violent crime task force drove a teen-ager to a park in Howard County and left him there without shoes and his cell phone. The youth said on television he was picked up for no reason, but I'm hearing he was getting in the way of a drug operation in West Baltimore by warning friends the cops were coming.

Regardless, cops can't abduct citizens and leave them places. Thanks to the Howard County police for finding the boy and returning him to his parents unharmed. If he's really obstructing, then arrest him. Law and Order did a show a few years back in which NYPD officers dropped a teen off in a bad neighborhood, making sure the dealers saw them get out of the marked squad car. In the show, the teen was killed. Luckily in real life the Baltimore youth made it okay.

Both officers are under investigation. It boggles the mind.