RB>         ù Quoting Bob Rudolph from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
 RB> BR> don't get a  free ride - on the contrary, they are scrutinized far 
 RB> BR> closer than you are.   Theremay be a bad cop or so around, and 
theyre 
 RB> BR> may be abuses (but show me a  profession in which they don't occur) 
 RB> The scrutiny is artificial. Scrutinized by their own department? By 
their 
 RB> cop 
 RB> union? The FOP? By the Justice Department? Try to get a Civilian Review 
 RB> Board 
 RB> going and see how fast they like being "scrutinized" by the public.
   Yeah, right - and how much of what the civilian review board turns up is 
more than what they 'feel' ought to be.  Civilians don't have the first 
notion 
of what it is to be a cop, what it takes to be a cop, what it feels like to 
be 
a cop.  All they know is they hate cops. 
   I don't have a whole lot of faith in civilian review boards - every one 
I've ever seen in action crucified good cops to get at the imaginary bad 
cops, 
who continued to operate because the civilians didn't know the system.  Now, 
populate the civilian review board with a few retired cops, and I might 
listen.  Most civilians don't have the vaguest notion of firearms, evidence 
maintenance, or much of anything else that is relevant, and they also don't 
have the patience or the interest to learn the law involved.
   I got one for you - why not let cops review your work?  They know at least 
as much about what it is that YOU do as you know about what THEY do - so 
where's the problem?
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