I think people would be shocked in general if they truly knew the level of criminal activity that goes on within police departments. One thing I find ironic are the police that complain that all these body camera video releases are making people anti police. One side effect of all this surveillance technology nowadays is that the police are having a harder time hiding their crimes just as the regular criminals are having a harder time hiding their crimes. They can only rig the system so much in their favor. In Louisiana they have their own Bill of Rights with things like they cant be questioned by investigators for 30 days once under investigation, any interrogation must be for a reasonable amount of time and allow for reasonable periods of rest and the personal necessities of the officer, and no statements in an administrative investigation can be used in a criminal investigation.
This is all why I think we need proactive police investigations instead of reactive investigations. I bet cities could reduce their lawsuits by more than half if they had a team proactively investigating. Problem is they dont want to know what they would find. Take a vehicle and certify that it has on drugs whatsoever. Take it to one of the best k9's to make sure it has nothing that would alert a dog. Then run it threw a high drug area you know your k9 units are working. Refuse consent to a search and see if they make the dog falsely alert. Do that and I guarantee you the rate of false positives would have the whole k9 dog sniffing thing considered unconstitutional by the supreme court. Sometimes its really telling what records they dont keep. Like they dont keep records of how often the dog alerts vs how often they actually find someone. Theres a reason for that. You cant subpoena a record that doesnt exist. Now every case is down to an officers word that he saw a dog alert and that might as well be the word of God in a courtroom.