I'm an open book dude. Cops don't recieve special treatment. What you have a problem with seems to be that cops are afforded the same treatment as citizens. There are criminal investigations, and there are administrative investigations. Citizens and Cops both are subject to the criminal investigations. Both have rights. Both can refuse to cooperate. Where the difference is, is citizens don't have administrative investigations where they are compelled to talk without any rights other than the promise that what they say in the administrative investigation won't be used in the criminal portion, as that would violate their rights.
Hide behind your finger if you must, but don't think that we can't see you. The facts are simple: cops
do get special rights: acts that would, when performed by non-cops, result in arrests or criminal investigations magically become acts that are "handled internally" which is reverse-pidgin for "ain't no big deal!"
If
I run a stop sign and lie to police about it and perjure myself, I'd get charged - and almost certainly arrested and dragged before a Judge. A cop, on the other hand? Nothing happens at first - not until the evidence - in the form of a video recording - becomes overwhelming and irrefutable. So he goes in for
a nice chat with the IA boys, oops, forgive me, I meant to say he goes in to give a statement in an IA investigation. During the course of this
get-together, err, interview, he eventually admits to running a stop sign, hitting and severely injuring another motorist as a result, lying about it to other officers on the scene, causing the victim to get arrested and charged on suspicion of driving under the influence, perjuring himself by lying in his official police report.
And what happens to this piece-of-shit who kickstarted a legal and health nightmare for this poor woman that he rammed with his car? NOTHING. It's not a big deal apparently and he's still listed on active duty. So yeah, no special rights my ass. I'm asking you point blank: what would happen to
me if I ran a stop sign, hit someone, then lied about at the scene, filed a false police report and perjured myself? Once you can answer that question,
then tell me again how cops don't get special rights.
I can give you a hundred other cases, some of which are even more egregious than this. Cases where a cop gets away with the proverbial murder because his fellow officers wrap everything up in a nice, IA-decorated blue bow.
