If you’re lucky enough to be friends with a cop, they may give you one of their get out of jail cards, which you can flash to other cops along with a request for favorable treatment.
But the favoritism that cops afford to one another’s friends are nothing
compared to the favoritism they give each other. Thanks to the
sweetheart deals cut by police “unions,” cops who are accused of crimes
get all kinds of benefits, ranging from the right to choose who may
interrogate them to a guarantee that they can see all the evidence
against them before answering questions, to the right to know the names
of anyone who gave evidence against them before question.
Cops get to call a time-out on any questioning, pausing the investigations against them for 5 days in Virginia and 30 days
in Louisiana. They get to purge their records of any accusations of
wrongdoing, and they can’t be threatened or enticed with plea bargain
deals by investigators.
No perp gets these privileges: if you demanded that cops treat
garden-variety suspects this way, they’d crucify you with claims that
this would allow criminals to get away clean and reoffend…. Perhaps
that’s why, when cops are dirty enough to finally, finally face justice,
they always turn out to be repeat offenders?
