Sparagmos
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They aren’t protected to whistleblow. The thin blue line is real, they are expected to lie, cheat, and steal for each other. They should protect each other from physical harm and from things like overwork (union solidarity!) NOT from justice or from the law. “Excessive violence” occurs daily in the police force in my city, as does entrapment and racial profiling. I have personally witnessed police abusing, tear gassing, and tricking peaceful protesters, probably 35 times. P,us what I’ve seen in hundreds of videos. The only way that this can happen is if the other officers are complicit. The police force is corrupt, and anyone who joins the force and doesn’t fight the corruption is complicit. I don’t care how many good deeds they do, if they watched another cop unnecessarily mace or beat someone, they’re bad.It could be so, I don't know enough of the police by laws to say one way or another. But I am sure they have some type of whistle blower protection, and if they don't, they should. But that would be something to bring up with petitions to a congressman. But I am not convinced they don't have such laws. But just because the laws are there to protect them does not mean they utilize those laws. I am in a union, and there are protections that our employees don't even use. That could help both the workers and the company, but they just don't know about them. And some of them do know about them and still don't use them. So again it is hard to say that the protections of whistle blowers are not there. But ultimately it's hard to say the whole police force is corrupt. Now there is a code that police officers have, and it's the same as with soldiers, when you serve along someone who actually protects your life, or in fact, saves your life. You tend to protect them too, as a courteousy, and as a code of ethics. But typical blue collar workers would not understand this code because to be honest we don't need to depend on one another in such ways. Unless one has had military background. But anyway I am not saying they are or are not corrupt, I am just saying that officers protect their own. They are a team. But that is not to say that if someone is excessively violent that others won't take notice and report it. Again check out this anonymous survey of police officers regarding excessive use of force:
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read the rest of the article here:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/181312.pdf
here is another article that talks about citizens filing a complaint if they believe a police officer has used excessive force, I assume other officers can do this as well toward other officers:
Addressing Police Misconduct Laws Enforced By The Department Of Justice
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