Deputy admitted to giving stopped cop preferential treatment

[Baz]

I'll preface this post by saying (as I have stated before) that most cops are good cops and do a job no one else would want to do.

Essentially they take out the trash.

But we all know that there are instances when cops get carried away and go into power trip mode. These situations are not acceptable and have been pointed out here in the past.

What works against the reputation of cops is when they do not police themselves.

In regards to that situation, here's a cop who pulled over another cop and gave him preferential treatment - and now they are both out of a job.

Now that's the way it should be handled....at the very least.

Volusia sheriff: Deputy admitted to giving stopped cop preferential treatment | News-JournalOnline.com

But in the inquiry, Taylor disclosed he let Rios and the others go because Rios was a police officer.

“I did,” Taylor told investigators when asked who made the decision not to arrest anyone for the marijuana found in the car. “I used my discretion and made the decision not to arrest because Rios was cop.”

Investigators asked Taylor if in a similar scenario, with no police officers in the vehicle, who would. Taylor answered “I would have arrested all of the occupants for constructive possession.”

“So if no cops were in the car you would have made the constructive possession arrest?” investigators asked Taylor a second time.

“Yes, I would have arrested all the occupants in the vehicle,” Taylor responded.

I doubt this will change the long standing tradition of cops giving special treatment to other cops but thought it was worth sharing as an example of the kind of stuff that happens to sully law enforcement's reputation.

[ted]

imho brass pass was the culture, no longer.