“Former Detective Joe Crystal sat at a back table in Martin’s West Ballroom last Thursday, scanning the room filled with police officers for any friends he still had left.
Under glowing chandeliers, more than 500 law enforcement officials and their families mingled prior to an awards ceremony honoring Baltimore’s finest. Crystal, 34, was one of the people up for an award, though few had expected him to show. He was a pariah. He had informed on two other cops who engaged in police brutality. And it had cost him his livelihood.
Earlier that day, Crystal showed off the house he was staying in while in town for the ceremony. He ran his hand over the marble surface of a bar he had made himself.”
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Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
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This is not only a trend among police departments. I served in the Marine Corps and if you were not a war loving, muslim-hating robot, than they wanted you out. A few of us stood strong and live life as civilians now and have no guilt because we didn’t murder anyone. I was at one point a college freshman, a criminal justice major, attempting to join the NYPD and in school my professor over and over would speak of this “blue wall of silence.” He described it as when an officer is in a bind of any type police “close ranks” and “protect their own” and he was very proud of this fact. I think he said this statement more than any other because it is the only thing I remember from the course. So it is not only a culture among police and the military but it is told to anyone wishing to enter this control-club, that the truth and justice do not exist in this alternate universe that is those in control versus those being controlled. Take that for what it’s worth.