Here’s the thing mate. If this kind of behavior is allowed to continue by the LE community; they will lose one of their biggest supporting blocks in the country.
If justice is not done in this case; it will set back LE relations with every community in the country to a time when no one trusted LE.
Does anyone really want that who is now or ever been in LE?
This screw up must be corrected and frankly; some heads must roll on the LE side. Obviously Reyna, Swanton, and anyone else directly connected must lose their jobs and possibly be looking at some prison time. Completely innocent lives were lost. Anything less will put LE on the defensive throughout the country for decades.
I sure don’t want to see that. I have extended family in LE. I don’t want to see their lives put in danger over the actions of some bad LE’s down in Texas.
Again; this must be made right or it will never be forgotten and LE in general will not be given the benefit of the doubt going forward.
Neither one of us wants that. Should two, three, or a small handful of corrupt LE people ruin it for everyone? Should honest LE stand by and support the corrupt one’s or should they stand up and say NO to this kind of behavior?
This is a very big effing deal (to quote Biden). If not handled correctly it will make things even worse for all LE across the country. Again; none of us want that. I sure don’t.
I really hope those who are at the top of the pyramid understand the ramifications of not getting this right. Once trust is lost; it is extremely difficult to get back. It can be done but it takes a very long time and then only if things go a certain way during that extended period of time.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here and stating what is most likely obvious but it can’t be said enough.
This must end in justice and not the demented TG kind of justice. His kind is obviously part of the problem and not the solution.
“Should two, three, or a small handful of corrupt LE people ruin it for everyone?”
No, corrupt cops should not be allowed to ruin it for everyone, especially not for other honest cops who do risk their lives for justice. I honestly do not know how it will all fall out in this tragic case. If there are corrupt cops they need to be taken out root and branch.
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I had a “boyfriend” once from Brooklyn. I met him through National Review. Not the present National Review, but back when W. F. Buckley himself was the editor. So I thought, he must be a decent conservative young man. So I met him in NY. I was impressed, he wanted to be a cop! Until I learned that the reason he wanted to be a cop, was because there was big bucks in graft and paybacks and who knows what other sources of illegal income!! NO KIDDING! He was for REAL wanting to be a cop to get ill-gotten gains in the big bucks range!!
Of course I dropped him like a hot potato! Not only the above, this was back when persons whose surname ended in a vowel, took hubris that they would be associated with the Mafia, that was anti-Italian discrimination! YET the same people, this guy for example, took great pride in any and all association they could come up with, to the Mob i.e. Mafia! They took pride in the Mafia, but decried anti-Italian “discrimination” because of mob associations with Italians. GO FIGURE! THEY were the ones taking pride in the Mafia rather than in legitimate hard working and honest Italian immigrants — not me. Let’s just say, I was appalled. Still am.
No wonder Serpico almost died. The “cop” who answered the call, later said, if he knew who it was, he would have let him die. So much for corrupt cops’ loyalty to honest cops, or to anyone else.
Sadly, nothing would surprise me. On the other hand, I have been if not surprised, at least reassured and thrilled by so many stories of honest and heroic cops and soldiers and etc. God Bless them!