This one is a great example of how a cop can totally fuck you. If it was just a normal guy he would have been completely assed out on a whim of 2 stupid pigs.
Can you imagine the look on the crooked cops faces when they found out that they levied bogus charges on an internal affairs officer, priceless!
Scarier is what do you think the odds that it was isolated and the one time it happened it was an IA guy? If you look at it that way the odds say it's happening quite frequently and they just happened to pick the wrong guy to do it to that time.
This are several reasons for most of the cop bashing.
Everyone has some anecdotal information about a cop trumping up charges and someone getting found guilty.
My favorite in the world of motorcycles:
A cop pulls you over and then looks for a reason to pull you over and then writes the ticket based on what they found after they pulled you over as the probable cause to pull you over...
Rel and the rest of the LEO on barf jump in to defend the cops. Guess what none of them have a clue what is going on. They can only answer for themselves. Problem number two with cops is the "Blue Wall" seen so often on internet forums. Every cop will immediately defend any other cops actions, even if the actions are completely unbelievable to non LEOs. Since the only person who can arrest a cop is another cop this is a conflict of interest and results in an "above the law" attitude and actions.
Cops testimony versus other testimony. This is a fun one. If the other person is dead, then it is the cops testimony vs nothing, look at the Costco shooting. UNLESS...there is video, Bart shooting. If the cop does not kill the other person, they have no weight in their own defense. Cop says you were doing 205 mph on your RC51, you and everyone else who rides a motorcycle laughs at the cop. Judge finds you guilty of going 205 mph.
The post about IAD catching other cops just confirms what we already know, there are dirty cops and not dirty cops. I expect the filth of any cop to be normally distributed like anything in nature. Roll the dice, I wonder what the 1 and 3 sigma distribution looks like.
Guess what people, this has been going on for 100's of years. It is just recently with the internet and the court of public opinion that we get to see any of this. Audio and video recordings of cops discussing what happened and developing a plan to make what they did legal after it was done. Several internet videos of cops making up stories and how they are going to use "Flowery language" to justify their actions.
Excuses, excuses, excuses. The job is rough, we are only human. We are just doing a job. I hear cops saying stuff that they use to rationalize what they do. That Oscar Grant was an idiot or something and had been causing problems his whole life. Is that a death sentence? That after years of of dealing with filth, that is the way thing need to be handled. If you can't follow and obey the law and respect a person's rights then time for a new career. Starbucks is hiring.
Someone needs to get IAD on the street and looking at the cops. That is the only way that the filthy pigs will get removed. I would hope that the other cops would want it. Unless they carry around a little dirt now and then.
