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Originally Posted by kane
It sounds to me like you answer your own question. It is his social circle that steps forward. a cop fucks up and his friends step up to defend him. A different cop fucks up and his friends step up to defend him. It has less to do with all cops being bad and more to do with them wanting to help a friend or someone they feel is being wronged. Sometimes people are blinded by loyalty and friendship. It doesn't make it it right, but it happens every day.
Don't get me wrong. I am not saying every cop is good. There are bad cops. I understand that. But in my experience most of them are not bad cops. Most of them go to work, do their job and go home. they aren't dirty, they aren't criminals, but we don't hear about them.
Again there are 15,000 cops in Chicago. Even if 1,500 of them are dirty, that means 90% of them are not.
I can give you a bunch of examples of various people in this business screwing people over and stealing money/content etc. Does that mean that everyone in this business is a thief and a scumbag?
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I have seem some of your other posts and you are way too smart to make this argument.
You have to know that if 10% of a group are wrongdoers and the other 90% are silent, you have a terribly corrupt system. It's the silence that allows corrupt systems to flourish. Have you ever heard the phrase "All evil needs to do to succeed is for good people to stand by and do nothing"?
Secondly, we are not talking about "friends" protecting other friends. These are police officers, people who have taken an oath and accept a paycheck in return for upholding the law and enforcing it equally. When they choose to be cops, they accept to be held to a higher standard.
BTW, do you want to defend the off duty Chicago cop who got drunk and crashed head on into another car and killed a kid, the cop was unharmed. How did his fellow cops respond? They held a fundraiser FOR THE COP that killed the kid. Not only that, they organized the fund during work hours, on the taxpayer's dime and held it at a police owned location. What kind of perversion is it when a parent loses a child as the result of a drunk cop and the parent's own tax dollars are used to raise money for the cop that killed their son?
These examples show that police officers see themselves as infallible and above any blame or wrongdoing. Maybe other cops see it as wrong, but their silence is a tacit endorsement of the behavior and culture.
I'm not saying all cops are bad and in smaller communities where the police live among the people they serve, it's much less common. But in big cities, it's a real problem.