Arrests of Indianapolis Officers 'Horrifying'

Excuse me, Mr. Brodeur, but your comments re: LA, NY and Chicago are inappropriate and stereotypical. You said, "I always came in to work as chief of narcotics understanding that was TV -- that was Los Angeles, that was New York City, that wasn't Indianapolis." Well, well, well, wake up and smell the coffee Mr. Brodeur - we all recruit from the human race and NONE of us are immune!!

It does not matter where crooked cops are found, it is a disgrace to all of the men and women who are true to their oath of office to serve and protect. The unfortunate fact is that crooked cops exist everywhere and the system needs to closer examine and openly deal with this matter to weed out all bad apples.

It's a fact that if reports of crooked police are not investigated and reported back on, they will be investigated by the media or some version of a citizen review board. Attempts to hide bad conduct only exacerbate the problem. FWIW, I am a retired cop and I support the bright line of sunshine on everything.

That's the problem with the justice system as a whole. People like Mr. Brodeur, who are in key positions are operating with a false sense of security, thinking that they some how are immune to corruption just because they live in Indianapolis. Wake up Sir! It's everywhere, and You are in a position to do something about it!

Maybe the law enforcement today needs a little more policing of them selves and better backgroud checks. I think the days of cops having ethics has gone down the drain. Its a disgrace to look on one page and see the death of an officer and to have these corrupt officers involved in things like this. Its a disgrace to law enforcement and the country

Be glad that something is being done about corrupt police officials. In South Africa it is a little different. I am commander of a metro narcotics unit and I have charged many officers with corruption only to have them transferred to a different section where they could continue their crimes as heroes.

These are sad times that we live in but these officers are human and will conduct themselfs as same. Mr. Brodeur and other Law Enforcement officals needs to remember that they work with people who are bad or may become bad.

I know this might get me a little negative attention, but, here goes. I work for a large city in Southern California, I have noticed since we have made attempts to recruit from certain ethnic groups and alternative lifestyles, for the sake of diversity and political correctness, we have run into a host of problems.

First, before I continue, let me say this, I don't care what racial, religious or alternative lifestyle you or a member of, or represent. The recruiting standards should not be changed, not one iota, we are finding out, when I say we, I mean your plain ol', rank-and-file police officer, the standards exist for a purpose and should not change for any individual regardless of what "Special Group" you are a member of.

For example, I have had an academy classmate of mine who was married to a gang member from an infamous, violent gang, from within our city. And this person was not a bit ashamed to admit it. Additionally, everyone in the department was aware of this as well, and did nothing about it. In fact, when a domestic violence incident had occurred between she and this "Gentleman" while we were going through the academy, the staff, and other higher ranking officers (brass) within the department did the best they could to cover it up.

Embarassing enough,the local newspaper got wind of the story and still this person graduated right on time. Oh, and eventually within a very short period of time promoted through the ranks to detective.

Next, another police officer, whom was recruited from the inner city from which we serve. The reason I list this, is because this form of recruitment is being touted as being something very special. To recruit from the same community in which you police, wow, what a noble endeavor.

However, the recruiting staff is finding that this is difficult to do without completely altering (lowering) the recruitment process to target this "Special" demographic.

Lets move on, we have served search warrants and found one of the newest members of our department in photographs with fellow gang members throwing up gang signs. This "So Called" fellow police officer's brother, is a documented active member of the same gang. I have personally have contacted this brother on traffic stops with other gang members in his company and he does not hesitate to tell me, "Hey, you know my brother, he's one of you!" Indeed, through a lapse in moral and recruitment standards, sadly, "He is one of us".

Thirdly, we just arrested another one of our fellow officers' brother, driving the getaway car, which is Suspected in a string of burglaries throughout the southland.

Lastly, this sickens me, it is only a rumor, but, how many of you cops out there have ever heard a rumor that had no basis in fact. Two of our "Brother Officers, unknown who they were, were rumored to be trying to set themselves up as hired assassins. Although, it was supposed to be only a baseless, unsubstantiated rumor, the administration had to officially address it throughout the department in the form of a correspondence read in every squad meeting in the city.

My point is this, I don't know what racial, religious or alt. lifestyle group these officers belonged to. However, if and when these officers are convicted; If I was a Victim of their corrupt, felonious actions, I would hire an attorney and I would go over each of their backrounds. If there were "Redflags" that were ignored for the sake of political correctness or diversity, I would hold sue the department as well as the city.

I would make the Chief of Police, Mayor, City Attorney, City Manager, etc., take the stand in court and let them explain how they chose political correctness over the safety of the citizenry who they have taken a sworn oath to protect.

I would wager that the officers involved in this case are not
"White", because if they were, the media would have disclosed this fact in the first two sentences of the article.

For example, White Sgt., shoots unarmed Black woman, holding a two year old during the service of a narcotics warrant.

well me and my 3 other friends were sleeping in our hotel room at days inn when about 8 cops busted in our room at gun point throwing us brutally to the ground and cuffing us!!!mind you not we never got our rights read to us and we never had a hostage at gun point like they said.so as far as im conserned all indianapolis police are dirty.*censored* the pigs!!!

I worked for a Northern California agency approx 250 sworn. I remember many new female and minority recurits didn't pass the physical agility exams, but were passed anyways by command staff who were seeking diverse candiates.

LA, Chicago and Washington DC all had the same issues when they relaxed their hiring procedures during major staff shortages. People who were not qualitifed for the job were hired. As a result--if you look at any major police scandal, most often the suspect cops involved are almost always hired during these times when background investigators are told to relax their standards.