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Means "Who Polices the Police?"

From the Houston Chronicle: 


Deputy accused of helping drug traffickers

Investigators arrested a deputy Harris County constable accused of helping narcotics traffickers.

Tomas Roque was a reserve deputy with Harris County Precinct 6 when he was taken into custody Wednesday as part of a corruption investigation linked to drug dealers.

The indictment against Roque, 26, was unsealed the day of his arrest. 

Around Dec. 6, Roque helped with the delivery of cocaine in the Houston area and was paid $2,000 in protection money, federal prosecutors said.

More here.

I haven't done one of these posts in quite a while.  But it's always worth it to just reach out and have one of these things fall into my hands for posting on Real Art.  And that's essentially the point.  I don't even have to do a search to find stories about police corruption, brutality, and other kinds of misbehavior.  They happen, literally, all the time.  Knee-jerk defenders of the police always assert the "bad apple" theory, that there are so many cops, and cops are human beings, that it is no surprise when some of them go bad.  I guess there's some truth to that.  But it just happens so much.  Seriously.  Just do that Google search I didn't do.  You'll get pages and pages and pages of hits.  Don't tell me there's nothing that can be done about this.  Don't tell me that there's nothing wrong with the way we approach policing.  It's over the top.  Bad apples don't happen everywhere, all the time.

My take is that police organizational structures, training, and overall culture make cops see themselves as elite, which necessarily leads to a sense of being above the law for many of them.  But who really knows?  Nobody seems to want to discuss the issue.  And so it will continue.  On and on and on.

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