Police Get Out of Jail cards are just the tip of the iceberg: no perp gets a sweeter deal than a cop
If you’re lucky enough to be friends with a cop, they may give you one of their get out of jail cards, which you can flash to other cops along with a request for favorable treatment.
But the favoritism that cops afford to one another’s friends are nothing compared to the favoritism they give each other. Thanks to the sweetheart deals cut by police “unions,” cops who are accused of crimes get all kinds of benefits, ranging from the right to choose who may interrogate them to a guarantee that they can see all the evidence against them before answering questions, to the right to know the names of anyone who gave evidence against them before question.
Cops get to call a time-out on any questioning, pausing the investigations against them for 5 days in Virginia and 30 days in Louisiana. They get to purge their records of any accusations of wrongdoing, and they can’t be threatened or enticed with plea bargain deals by investigators.
No perp gets these privileges: if you demanded that cops treat garden-variety suspects this way, they’d crucify you with claims that this would allow criminals to get away clean and reoffend…. Perhaps that’s why, when cops are dirty enough to finally, finally face justice, they always turn out to be repeat offenders?
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