Actually, this sort of blatant criminality is becoming general SOP in many, if not most, police depts.
It’s growing ever more certain that from the top down, the rule of law is in it’s death throes. It is also becoming dangerous to have any respect at all for law enforcement.
That is sad but true.
I only last month had the chance to THANK a police officer (while he was alive) for helping set me on the straight and narrow in my youth.
How many cops who actually CARE about the community are really left?