My answer is in there.
Simply making an arrest doesn't mean that an innocent officer will be convicted. But the fact that no arrest is being made at all is very telling. It is the double standard that I am attacking, a double standard of police protecting police instead of enforcing the law on each other. I want the police to be subject to the laws they enforce.
I heard a radio interview yesterday. It appears that almost all the Fullerton police know who those six were. One of them was bragging about it in the locker room that night. All of them are still on duty and on the streets. Now, since the public doesn't know who those six were, the public is regarding all police as if they were one of the six murderers. And calling them such. It is creating such a morale problem among the police, said the interviewed person.
So why hasn't anyone arrested those six? Why hasn't anyone at least arrested the one who was bragging in the locker room? He basically confessed! If the police can say "while we won't release the names, we have arrested the six and are holding them in custody while we conduct our investigation" that will cause the public to realize that the ones on the street aren't the ones who participated in this murder.
I posted many pages ago, I hold police to a higher standard. Not because I want to see them fail, but because the nature of the job is such that it begs to be held to a higher standard.
Do you have any others in your particular organization who you feel should be subjected to greater scrutiny? Have you subjected them to that scrutiny? If you came upon one of your fellow officers beating a non-resisting and injured suspect while shouting "stop resisting" would you try to stop him? Or would you testify that because your fellow officer was shouting "stop resisting" therefore the person being beaten was obviously resisting?
I'm not asking for a rush to judgment, I'm asking for police to be judged by the same standard. No hiding behind the badge, no counting on the protection of the blue wall of silence. Police held to the same standard as the rest of us, and the police holding each other to the standards they hold the rest of us. A good cop arrests bad cops. Any officer who watches another officer commit a crime without intervening is guilty of aiding and abetting, which makes that officer a bad cop.
I do understand why more police don't do that though.
Being a Rogue Cop, in this case defined as a police officer who does stand up to other officers, can get you fired. That article has a few instances of the 1% of police who are given a bad name by the other 99%.
At least you are not agents of the TSA; I would also like to see arrests made there. The gropings have gotten much more intense over the last year. But every time a passenger complains to the police about sex assault or sexual molestation, the police do not make an arrest. Instead the TSO says "let me see your ID" to the passenger, the passenger shows it to a cop instead, and the cop
shares the info with the TSO which is a gross violation of the passenger's rights.