, but nowhere near the 100% corrupt and brutal that is ignorantly claimed. t.
Looking back through the entire thread I can't find where anyone claimed a 100% corruption level among LEO's. Maybe the ignorance is in the defensive perception through guilt by association, or something to that effect?
Maybe in Hicksville USA and other backwater towns where everybody knows everyone elses business there is an extreme low rate of police corruption, but in the big city and suburbia, it runs deep. Corruption doesn't always mean doing something wrong of using physical violence. It can also mean turning a blind eye to crime because you're too damn lazy to make out a report, or unwilling to put oneself in harms way. Sleeping through an entire shift night after night while pulling double duty? What's the crime there? No big deal you might say. But people are sick of footing the bill. And the power the unions have over local governments is borderline extortion. How about all the construction workers put out of jobs because the union says there has to be an ARMED officer on traffic details in construction zones. For what? They're going to shoot somebody for a traffic violation? Half the time they don't even direct the traffic. They yap on the cell phone, drink coffee, and stare down the hole in the construction site. At least the $10 an hour flag man used to do his job. The $50 an hour detail cop screws off all day.
I have put myself in harms way a few times to secure evidence which cops discarded for no apparent reason other than they were too damn lazy to make the effort to submit it. I also have found witnesses who saw a city cop dispose of a murder weapon because the victim was a homeless person beaten to death by a gang. So many things go by the boards so easily for so long they become accepted.
I especially like the part where legislators in a liberal state without capital punishment will give a person the proverbial shot in the paw if they kill a cop, yet when a cop commits a crime, they get a lesser or no sentence because they're cops. There is quite a double standard there.
People are sick of it. Granted, there are some by the book good cops, and some who go above and beyond. But they are overshadowed by the corruption of the others, whatever the percentage, and that shadow is darkened by the fact that these cops are seldom punished.
In the one case where I thought I had hard evidence to nail a corrupt cop making threatening phone calls in the middle of the night, I had the victim put a trace on the calls. The problem was, we had to get a case number from? Ya, the police. Like having the cat watch the canary. So I played stupid and had the police file a case number, and low and behold, according to the police, the phone company conveniently lost the files.
When you're a member of a fraternal club, it's hard to see the forest through the trees, even if the gangs colors are blue. Before anyone accuses me of being "ignorant" they should have a clue. Walk a mile in my shoes, and you'll have a rude awakening.
Here's some tidbits for you.
Police Corruption
Problems with Drugs and Police Corruption: Drugwar.com
To serve and collect: measuring police corruption | Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | Find Articles at BNET
Facts is facts. Cry me a river. :cray: