http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2725581&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070325jefferson-story,1,3891028.story?coll=chi-news-hed Bad cops exist only because the "good" cops let them.
Quote: I admire most of the LEO's I know. I have both family, and very close friends who do "Serve and Protect" and they have both my gratitude and my respect. They do it right. No. Actually they don't "do it right." Every, every department or agency (federal, state, or local) has one or more of these "thugs in blue." The rest of them - ALL OF THE REST OF THEM - are knowing accomplices in the cover ups that occur daily. It is no excuse that "I personally don't beat suspects or other civilians or shake them down for cash or drugs" if you participate in the great blue wall of silence. And every one of them does. So long as any officer (which means every officer more than a week out of the Academy) knows of criminal activity by other officers and doesn't "rat them out," they are no better than the worst bad apple. Imagine selling your soul for $19.95 per hour plus overtime. If this is "cop bashing," it's a bashing that is well deserved. Deserved by every police officer because all of them participate in the constant, continuing cover-up (unless assigned to IAD, in which case I apologize). It's the thousands of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" cops that bring the DISGUST OF THE PUBLIC upon the entire LEO profession because it belongs on the entire LEO profession. The CPD is just more forthright about using (abusing?) their special "privileges" as LEO's. Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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