Second City Cop weighs in on his asshole colleagues who forced a suspect to pose with them after his arrest:
We have yet to see even a tiny argument that makes any sort of sense.
- Policy to take photos of a prisoner? In a controlled environment for booking and ID purposes. This wasn’t that.
- Mass arrest? Of one person? You’ve got to be joking.
- The prisoner was a willing participant? Try running that one by the Supreme Court. You’ve already restricted his movement, you think the Court is going to say he had any sort of freedom at all? Not likely.
- No time on the job hair-gels did it all? Not even close.
- You never did anything stupid so you must be a pussy copper? We never denied doing anything stupid – but we were wise enough to not take pictures of it and smart enough to learn from others’ mistakes. Who doesn’t know about cameras everywhere? Especially in a strange city?
- If everyone keeps their mouth shut, they’ll never find out? Two shifts of coppers, in a known intersection, with an actual arrest that has some one’s name on the report somewhere? Stevie Wonder could pick that platoon out.
SCC also supports McDonalds’ Second Amendment incorporation argument against many of his superiors, up to and including Hizzoner Daley,
SSC, you’ve said some things that make me nervous, but this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are an honest principled citizen. Thank you for stepping up.