Philadelphia spent nearly $25-million settling civil rights complaints against police between 2007 and mid-2010, alone.
Chicago spent an average of $39.1-million per year settling similar claims against police between 2004 and 2006.
New York City spent an average of $96.4-million between 1999 and 2008.
Police culture, particularly its no-snitching insularity, is “in part responsible for the prevalence of police misconduct and impedes meaningful police reform,” stated a 2010 article in The Catholic University Law Review.
The out-sized political power of police unions like the FOP compounds difficulties of policing police.
Philly's finest can punch a woman during a parade while filmed on camera and keep his job.
Philly's finest can cheat the city taxpayers out of 90,000 for false documentation of recorded overtime hours and keep his job.
Philly's finest can plant narcotics on a suspected drug dealer or worse, an innocent bystander and still keep his job.
Philly's finest can brutally beat a civilian and keep his job.
Philly's finest can co-hearse confessions, lie and steal and still keep his job.
All of the above statements are facts not fiction and all kept their jobs because their union made it happen. The Police Commissioner has less say than the FOP.
I grew up in a world where the police were the "good guys". I believed that truth most of my life. Then, it hit home. Then, I began to research. What I discovered was frightening. Nearly every week, a dirty cop is caught and every week that same dirty cop receives a hand slap and put back out on the streets.
When is it going to stop?
When are the law-abiding cops going to shout, "enough"?
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