I've known a LOT of cops

[Savannahmann]

122. Not at all.

As I have maintained in many posts in this thread, those so called good cops, who turn a blind eye to the abuses, excesses, and crimes of other cops are themselves guilty. They are not deserving of respect, and should receive none.

In another post, I put a scenario, where I see my neighbor strike his wife. If I fail to report this, I am in fact committing a crime. If a police officer sees a fellow officer strike someone, they don't report it. They back the other officer, and nobody is ever charged.

Another example I used was Rodney King. Where the ones charged after the Video came out was the five who were involved in the abuse. Yet there were other cops, who also wrote reports, and none of those reports matched the events we all saw on the video. None of those officers were charged, only the five they HAD to charge to placate the outraged public. That's the only time that the so called bad cops are charged, when overwhelming evidence coupled with public outrage requires the system to take notice and prosecute the bad cops. Then we're given the platitudes about the bad apples in any bunch etc.

Yet how many times has that bad apple done this sort of thing? We are expected to believe it was the one time they got caught, which is laughable to say the least. So those fellow officers knew that Bob was like that, and did nothing to protect us from him. Not until someone shot video showing Bob in all his glory.

Because they remain silent, and maintain that code of silence, they are NOT GOOD COPS. I am most certainly not walking that back. Any cop who maintains that silence is as guilty as the ones who committed the crime, accessory after, and before the fact would be the charge for we civilians. So no, I have NO RESPECT for the police. Because they have done nothing to earn my respect.

The arguments about the few bad apples are beyond reprehensible. Because those boys and girls wearing badges know who the bad apples are, and know what they're doing, they've seen it, heard about it, and done nothing to stop it. If I obstructed justice by remaining silent when I knew of a crime, I'd be charged, but nobody with a badge ever is. That is the hypocrisy, the double standard that makes many of us hold the police in such contempt.