More on the culture of corruption/blue wall of silence.

In Fresno a Chief is under fire for interfering in internal affairs investigations to protect violent cops.
Wednesday, through a department spokesperson, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer refused to comment on allegations he's condoned a culture of violence within the force.

Dyer declined to discuss accusations made by a member of his own force, that he had a hand in manipulating the outcome of internal affairs investigations.

But, attorneys pushing a lawsuit against the chief and the department hope to show that Dyer's own misconduct set a tone for the department.

In a February 26th deposition obtained exclusively by KSEE 24 News, Dyer admitted he violated police procedure in the past.

The civil rights lawsuit claims Dyer's misconduct opened the door for other officers to behave outside of policy.
In Hawaii a chief is also under fire - by his own officers, for actually disciplining them:

HONOLULU -- Honolulu Police Department Chief Boise Correa on Monday defended himself against criticism from the police officers' union, which wants him ousted.

He told KITV he is taking his own survey of police brass.

A survey taken by the union and completed by about half the police officers found 87 percent of them want a new chief. That number is up from the survey in 2005, when 78 percent of them wanted a new chief.

They said they felt Correa treats officers unfairly in discipline and other matters.

Correa said disciplining officers is unpopular at times, but necessary to maintain the department's integrity. He said all the data point to success at the top of his department.

"We had a low, the lowest crime rate in 75 years. We had the lowest amount of complaints ever reported to the police commission," Correa said.

Correa told KITV he is asking captains and above for their suggestions to improve the Police Department.

The Honolulu Police Commission must decide whether to reappoint or replace him when his term ends in August.

Some commissioners have told people they are amazed at how passionate the rank-and-file are in their opposition to Correa and they are leaning against reappointing him, sources said.

The Police Commission deciding his fate is made up of Mayor Mufi Hannemann's appointees, who sources said has privately told people he does not support retaining Correa.
Over in Denver a while back, some undercover cops beat the ever-loving **** out of a fifty seven year old man. One of them, undercover, swore at the old man, saying he ran a red light on his bike. The man knocked the baseball cap off of the cop. So naturally, the cops do the standard "three cops pummeling with fists" while they've got him on the ground.

And then, while he's on his stomach, hand behind his back, with three cops on top of him, one of the cops pulls back his head and slams it face first into the pavement. And then they charge him with assault on a police officer, lying in all their reports, and not interviewing any witnesses.

But luckily, the whole thing was videotaped. You can hear the guys' teeth cracking as his face is slammed into the ground. And the cop who slammed the guy's face into the pavement was actually charged with a crime - second degree assault.

The videotape didn't come out until after the victim's trial had began. Because the cops didn't know there was a tape, they lied under oath about what happened.

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