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L0oniX

(31,493 posts)
Tue May 5, 2015, 08:42 AM May 2015

‘If you snitch, your career is done’ [View all]

Good Cop Files Lawsuit Against Corrupt Department That Told Him ‘If you snitch, your career is done’

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/01/good-cop-files-lawsuit-against-corrupt-department-that-told-him-if-you-snitch-your-career-is-done/



“Where are all the good cops?” Critics of police brutality and abuse of power often wonder this – sometimes aloud, often on social media. But there is an answer to that question – it’s not purely rhetorical – the “good cops” are driven out of work by the bad cops.

Far from being “a few bad apples,” Detective Joseph Crystal of the Baltimore Police Department says that he was targeted by other officers for trying to root out corruption.

“If you snitch, your career is done,” one officer told him. He eventually became public enemy No. 1 inside the Baltimore Police Department. But before that, he was considered a rising star in law enforcement.

more at link

Gives me some hope that there are a few good cops who will expose the bad cops and fight them.

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Chicago Cops Who Exposed Department Corruption, Threatened with “Going Home in a Casket” JonLP24 May 2015 #1
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2015 #32
Auto-removed before I could respond JonLP24 May 2015 #36
We need some type of a national bad cop hot line. No idea how it would work, how RKP5637 May 2015 #2
A Federal hot line. L0oniX May 2015 #4
Yep! n/t RKP5637 May 2015 #9
anonymous "bad cop hotline" heaven05 May 2015 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2015 #34
+1 L0oniX May 2015 #59
Do it like we do child abuse hot lines. Call in - no name asked. Social Services investigates any jwirr May 2015 #20
Yep! Because police are incapable IMO of policing their own herd. n/t RKP5637 May 2015 #22
Yes, we do need independent investators. And not necessarily from the area that is being investigate jwirr May 2015 #24
Truly independent civil review boards with no police presence hifiguy May 2015 #49
Yes, and it might even be a deterent. Right now they have little to fear. jwirr May 2015 #51
In our state Mnpaul May 2015 #58
Minnesota - right? One of the ways racism toward Native Americans in NE MN is handled is by jwirr May 2015 #61
Serpico Ichingcarpenter May 2015 #3
That's immediately what I thought Nt newfie11 May 2015 #5
Yes that is exactly what I thought of too. Stuart G May 2015 #11
I recommend The Place Beyond the Pines if you haven't seen it already JonLP24 May 2015 #30
The Place Beyond the Pines? nt awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #39
A film JonLP24 May 2015 #40
I was just verifying the title awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #42
Beyond, I must have mistyped JonLP24 May 2015 #43
I'll go looking for it awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #44
Boom. Here's a link. valerief May 2015 #37
There should be reviews of reviews JonLP24 May 2015 #41
And that movie came out in 1973, based on a true story Curmudgeoness May 2015 #46
Check this; A HERETIC I AM May 2015 #50
Interesting, but not surprising. Curmudgeoness May 2015 #54
Detective Joseph Crystal, honor is you... Dont call me Shirley May 2015 #6
I hope he gets justice, but there's always Internal Affairs aikoaiko May 2015 #7
And how is that not corrupt also? nt valerief May 2015 #38
In departments with issues nadinbrzezinski May 2015 #60
there are a few good apples and a load of bad ones. Ed Suspicious May 2015 #8
SMH Mr Dixon May 2015 #10
+1 nt Live and Learn May 2015 #13
K & R AzDar May 2015 #14
At last, more and more is coming out. merrily May 2015 #15
Whistle blowers are almost always vilified SheilaT May 2015 #16
It really does betray the lie of "a few bad apples". stillwaiting May 2015 #17
Thomas J. Martinelli, a professor at Wayne State, wrote a series of articles on the most common type JonLP24 May 2015 #31
outstanding info - thanks for posting / nt Locrian May 2015 #33
Thanks for this Fairgo May 2015 #52
blue code of silence , blue code of conspiracy allan01 May 2015 #18
What we need to do is bring back accountability d_legendary1 May 2015 #19
he's a brave man - the cop corruption and silence is destroying us. samsingh May 2015 #21
Courage and honor are in his face. colorado_ufo May 2015 #23
"I will compromise my integrity, nor my moral courage" pasto76 May 2015 #25
NOT! (You forgot a NOT) JustABozoOnThisBus May 2015 #47
BUt but but...just a few bad apples! nt Rex May 2015 #26
They're called "Boy Scouts" with total contempt. Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #27
This is what happens when corruption is not rooted out AZ Progressive May 2015 #28
Detective Debra Stansell from Frisco Texas PD, didn't get that chance therehegoes May 2015 #29
I suspect they don't just murder black people. L0oniX May 2015 #35
I think this young man should head the Baltimore PD underthematrix May 2015 #45
As if more proof were needed, this confirms that police departments and the Mafia hifiguy May 2015 #48
I don't think sulphurdunn May 2015 #53
Who would want a career SamKnause May 2015 #55
So many do in so many different career fields JonLP24 May 2015 #57
I watched the video provided Unknown Beatle May 2015 #56
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