Whistleblowers ARE able to expose it. Here's the problem with saying that federal courts should protect them from retaliation instead of civil service boards:
"To accept Mr. Ceballos's argument, the majority concluded, would be to commit state and federal courts to 'a new, permanent and intrusive role' overseeing communications among government employees and their superiors."
We generally agree but there is a real problem divining where you protect political whistleblowers and where you attack their political bosses for day-to-day decisionmaking. I lean towards the belief that the federal courts shouldn't be in that business if only because being in that role will make them a political branch.
Now, having said that, why is it that the liar cop wasn't prosecuted? Who is in LA that isn't doing their job, including the Fibbies who investigate government corruption? We know the answer--the system protects itself, the people must take it on for corruption to end, and they are equally corrupt (at least, in LA they are).
Those are excellent points - I'll rethink this through the day at work. Thanks.