I was personally involved with a traffic incident in which an off-duty state trooper says I cut him off. He chased me for about 10 miles, stopping when I did, following when I proceeded, and passing against the double yellow line to keep up with me as I tried to intervening vehicles between us (I had no way to know he was an LEO. I dialed 911 to ask for assistance in where to drive to be safe from a potential attacker.
But he was on the phone with his buddies, and 4 cars came for me. They took my statement before revealing that I was the suspect, and not the good citizen as I had imagined.
They charged me with reckless driving, and the cop with nothing. It cost me $1500 for a lawyer to make it go away (the DA said she wasn’t going to put the cop through this.)
I couldn’t report it, because they would have had to reinstated the dismissed charge to defend the cop against my misconduct charge.
I tend to think virtually all cops have moral or mental problems, or are knowingly tolerant of those cops who do.
... said the shooting occurred after the cops in an unmarked car chased them when Polanco tried to maneuver around slow-moving traffic.