kane

It actually happens a lot more than you might realize. We just don't hear about it.

There was a case in my town a few years ago where one of the cops got by another cop lying on a report. They turned the report over to a senior officer who went to the chief. The cop that falsified the report was fired.

After nearly two years of legal battles the cop that was fired was brought back. The city was forced to rehire him. The reason was that the agreement the city had with the police union required certain steps to firing an office for an offense like this. These steps included an arbitration hearing. It ended up being ruled in arbitration that the cop was guilty, but firing was too harsh of a crime so the city was forced to hire him back and pay him the past two years of back pay.

When the date of his return was announced the country district attorney contracted the police chief and said he wouldn't accept any case that had this cop's name on it. As a group, every cop in the city went to the chief and told him they would refuse to work with this guy.

They ended up still bringing him back, but all he was allowed to do was answer phones and talk to people that walked into the department. If there was any actual official business he had to get another cop to take over. The chief then set out to figure out how he could revoke the cop's police certificate which would allow him to fire him, but before that could happen the guy "slipped and fell" and hurt his back and ended up getting a medical retirement.

The news said nothing about the fellow cops turning him in or refusing to work with him. All they mentioned was the city hiring a lying cop back and then later that the lying cop was getting a medical pension.