Quote Originally Posted by GilpinGuy View Post
I'm not calling you out or anything here, but in your years of LEO service, have you ever seen an officer do something untoward to the point that it would warrant it being reported to a supervisor or whatever? If so, did you do it?

I think "part" of the problem is police not policing themselves and calling out the bullshit excuse of "bad apples". Yes, assholes exist. Call them out and get them out of policing.
Never. Worst thing I can recall is an officer on my team (I was the supervisor) lied to me about backing into a light pole and causing minor damage to a car. I had an occasion or two where a fellow officer pulled some bonehead stuff that put me in danger when dealing with people...but that was always handled between the two of us.

There were the lazy types that always had an excuse for not handling calls or finding excuses to divert from certain calls forcing someone to handle stuff in their district. Everyone knew who those guys were and usually avoided helping them. If a fellow officer was down 4 or 5 reports and got dispatched to another call, someone would always offer to take the call for them. The lazy guys would never get that type of consideration.

But nothing like unnecessary use of force.

I was sued by a kid for $17M. He fabricated a story about how I hit him in the head with my hand/flashlight/nightstick/gun (it was always a different item when it was shown his story didn't make sense). The family notified the FBI and they cleared me. Then it went to trial in federal district court and after a week long trial the jury found in my favor in a matter of minutes. It was obvious he was lying. Mom and dad were convicted felons and looking for money. Their attorney knew I didn't do it but he was getting paid so he didn't care.