When Police Do This, How Does The Government Protect Them?

Police cor­rup­tion is a major rea­son that there is a lack of trust between law enforce­ment and the pub­lic.
As a for­mer police offi­cer myself, I always try to under­stand the point of view of offi­cers.
Over the many years after leav­ing law enforce­ment I have con­tin­ued to give my sup­port to the rule of law, abide by laws wher­ev­er I live, and to sup­port law enforce­ment to the best of my abil­i­ties.
This man wear­ing the uni­form in this sto­ry is not an iso­lat­ed indi­vid­ual or a bad apple in an oth­er­wise good bar­rel.
More and more it is becom­ing clear­er and clear­er that these types of behav­ior are not the excep­tion but more the rule when it comes to African-Americans.
At a time when (a) we see inno­cent black peo­ple released after spend­ing decades in prison for crimes, they did not com­mit.
And (d) peo­ple are exe­cut­ed in some states even when their guilt is in seri­ous doubt it is crit­i­cal­ly impor­tant that the gov­ern­ment stop pro­tect­ing these racist criminals.

There is no group of peo­ple who are all bad, but when the peo­ple who are giv­en the respon­si­bil­i­ty to enforce the laws use those pow­ers in unscrupu­lous ways, they are no longer deserv­ing of respect or def­er­ence.
In actu­al­i­ty, the pro­lif­er­a­tion of cell phone videos of police act­ing in ways that are bla­tant­ly thug­gish and crim­i­nal should not be pro­tect­ed by the government.

This crim­i­nal was report­ed­ly giv­en a secre­tive sweet deal of a whop­ping $123,000 by West Linn city lead­ers, even as he was accused of the alle­ga­tions he con­fessed to as well as drunk dri­ving alle­ga­tions against him by two of his own patrol officers.

In anoth­er report­ing by [koin​.com], this dis­graced cop even tried to extort a city leader, demand­ing an addi­tion­al $40,000 to $50,000, more than was approved, or else he would go pub­lic with embar­rass­ing per­son­al infor­ma­tion about her. https://​www​.koin​.com/​l​o​c​a​l​/​c​l​a​c​k​a​m​a​s​-​c​o​u​n​t​y​/​w​e​s​t​-​l​i​n​n​-​n​e​w​-​f​b​i​-​p​r​o​b​e​-​o​f​-​e​x​-​c​h​i​e​f​-​s​o​u​g​ht/