countythrowaway

Absolutely. It is real, and EVERYONE follows it.

When do you hear of cops testifying against their own "brothers?" You don't. 99.999% of them follow the code of silence. I just don't understand how they can look at themselves or sleep at night.

EDIT: IN MY EXPERIENCE everyone follows the code. I'm sure that there are good upstanding cops out there, but I haven't met many.

Potentially?

I saw it happen almost daily.

Apologies!!

It is happening in other places. I think the FIRST thing that must happen is that all officers wear cameras on their uniforms at all times. All data is sent to a NEUTRAL 3rd party agency and is kept there where no one can tamper with it, period.

I would put everything I own betting on 70% of the complaints and altercations would disappear, police departments would be cleaning out the corrupt, good ol' boys and the courts would no longer be clogged with cases of police brutality.

That would be the first thing. People must be made aware, laws need to be passed. The brutality must stop.

This isn't prison. these people had just been arrested and being brought to jail for the first time, so yes there were plenty who came in drunk, high, poor and/or brown.

Poor, brown, drunk, high....

Basically people who couldn't defend themselves, or wouldn't remember it in the morning.