If you pulled over a car that was weaving and found it to be driven by an fellow police officer (from an adjoining municipality), what would you do?
additional - from your own department?
If you came across evidence another officer in your department was was “shaking down” local drug dealers, what would you do?
If you were asked or questioned by IAD regarding another officers conduct during an arrest which you witnessed the officer, go a little to far as far as using force goes... would you... tell the events as you saw them? ... state the the use of force was justified? ... say that you did not see the event so therefore you could not say....
Basically what I’m asking at what point would you cross the ‘thin blue line’?
evidence of shaking down drug-dealers? we are "strongly encouraged," not required to report that. most likely that would be taken care of in-house, but also perhaps reported to the immediate supervisor. but that is an extreme example, imho.
use of force, it depends if it was excessive by dept guidelines. i would recount the scene the way i saw it. i would not give opinion as to excessiveness. they don't pay me to make that determination.
do officers cover for eachother? sure. would it change the outcome of scenarios? usually not. usually it is used as a time-saving measure. i won't elaborate due to time constraints. but i'm not talking about illegal activities. purely administrative.