I do believe 84% have seen a colleague abuse power. I saw a couple at APD. They were fired. One was prosecuted. Id bet the ones the 85% see...are all seeing the same bad apples before they get fired.
Still...I need hard proof. Not an anonymous survey of 0.1% of northern cops from 15 years ago.
Read up on it. Not my job to educate you.
Oh I have. I lived that job for nearly a decade...and hate lots of things about that profession. But true corruption isnt one of them...because its an excessively overblown left wing boogey man.
I know more about the realities of police work than yoh could ever dream of. And you're dead wrong. At any given time...the number of truly corrupt cops in America is...at worst...1-2%. Unless you can find me 300,000 stories saying otherwise.
The lawsuits and backlash from a cover up are FAR FAR worse than just throwing an officer under the bus and firing him and releasing the story. Thats fact. And if you think for a second that a department wont toss a street cop to avoid a lawsuit or backslash from a cover up you're insane. And THAT is why the corrupt cops are so vastly outnumbered.
Exactly! Every police force in the country is extremely paranoid about someone filing a legitimate lawsuit against them. One lawsuit can wipe out some police departments yearly budget. Every cop on every police force is told straight up BEFORE they even go through basic training. "DO NOT **** UP!" Don't steal a ******* apple off someone's tree! Don't even pick one up off the ground!
A lot of ex military are now joining police forces. Each of those applicants must undergo 'advanced screening' to determine if an applicant is suffering from PSD, has any addiction problems, financial problems, marital problems, is intolerant of others based on race, gender, religion. The screening is very extensive these days.
I personally know an ex military who applied for a job on a police force who was turned down. He had been heard telling racist jokes in the military and that fact was on his military record. The police HR interviewer asked him if he had any racial bias. He said "no". The interviewer knew he was lying and the applicant knew the interviewer knew he was lying. End of job possibility. End of ever getting any job on any police force b/c a record of his application and reason for denying it is permanently on a nation wide police data base. That's how hard it has become to become a police officer.
99.999% of cops are dead straight and will not, and are not required to ride with any cop they choose not to. That's police department procedure.
If any cop at any time is getting 'no-ride' notes for any reason that cop is soon removed from the force. Again it goes back to lawsuits and straight cops who do not want to be scene with any cop you has any 'issues' involving honesty.
All you stupid LIB pyjama-boys chicken shits need to pull your head out of your ass holes and think/act like men.