“The other cops say they don’t like doing back up for him because they know what he’s doing is wrong.
But they don’t stop it.
The good, hard working cops know who they are. They need to stop covering for them and get rid of them, in their own interest as well as for society’s.”
But isn’t that a big problem? Having a bad plumber may result in a leak, but having a bad cop ( or a doctor for that matter ) may leave you dead!!! And your metaphor is right in that doctors will cover for eachother just like the cops do. I had to change PCP’s a few years ago because the Dr. I had had for probably 25 years, was loosing it. When I switched to one of the other Drs. in the clinic, they made tha change without questioning my decision, but they would not admit that the former Dr. was a problem. A few months later, he “retired,” but everyone praised him right up to the day he left. So too it is with cops. They have a “code of omerta” just like the mobsters to cover for eachother no matter the circumstances. And while it’s fine for them to stand up for one another when there’s an injustice against one of their number, it’s the same game when one of them deserves to be disciplined. As I’ve posted before, just try lodging a formal complaint against a cop as I did once. You will really see how they operate when confronted with a citizen’s complaint and it isn’t a pretty picture.
Or beat a lying cop in Court and get acquitted. You become marked, because part of being a bad cop is not taking losing very well. They will find a way to get you arrested for something else. Yes, I saw this happen; in fact, when they got their acquittal I told them the bad news was they were going to get harassed. Sure enough, this person, in her 50s with no prior record, was arrested for "Resisting" just a month later.