AlanShearer wrote:
There are a ton of great cops too. Unfortunately, their refusal to hold fellow cops accountable makes them pretty shitty. If cops who make mistakes or bad cops were called out by their fellow officers, there would be a lot more community trust in cops. Bad cops are called out by their fellow officers all the time. They just don't go public with it to satisfy social media curiosity. They file their report. They cooperate with the investigation, and the let the process play out, without getting hysterical about it. In the vast majority of incidents where police are investigated internally for misconduct, it's because a fellow officer told management.
In my experience working with police, most officers view bad cops as a danger to themselves and others, and that's not something they easily tolerate. They also know that in this day, there's a good chance someone's recording what they do, and they don't want to be held accountable for not having reported or worse, falsely reporting something.
You are correct that we don't generally hear when a cop informs on another cop. We have been told again and again that there is the "Thin Blue Line" that doesn't get crossed. It would be interesting to know what the reality is and not something manufactured to paint the worst picture possible.
I have never worked with cops but know several. 95% of them are great guys who are out to do a job but there is 5% that seem to have a score to settle for something that happened along the way. My hope is that the 95% run the other 5% off the job.
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