> I wonder how the Sargent and Judge who approved these searches feel. If they take their jobs seriously, I do hope that they are more critical of search warrant applications in the future.

I guarantee they feel like they've been slighted because they take their jobs seriously, and from their perspective they should have been allowed to do what they did. Power corrupts the mind as much as the bank account.

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cogman10 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yup. To see this mentality on full display you just have to pull up videos of cops getting DUIs.

They all act like it's the most insulting thing in the world that they get pulled over. They all use their status as cops to try and get out of the ticket. The cops that pull them over always treat them in the softest and most deferential way imaginable. And I'm sure more times than there are videos for, these cops get away with DUI which is why they are so incensed when the arresting cop doesn't play along.

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bitexploder 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The injury to their ego is tremendous. The ones that allow their authority to become their identity cannot mentally separate a challenge to this authority from a direct attack on themselves. To them it is quite literally the same thing and it is incredibly dangerous. It is how the authoritarian mind works, because to them it feels like survival.

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collabs 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Especially in the city of New York, I sincerely believe a police officer butting a reflective vest on the front dashboard of their illegally parked car is enough grounds for immediate dismissal/firing from the job and all retirement seized with no recourse. I don't know how we would make it legal but this is the kind of visible, petty corruption that makes people lose their respect for the system.

	▲	ifh-hn an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That seems a little over the top of a parking infraction... Maybe they should be summarily shot too.

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runlevel1 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just last week, two NYPD cops were indicted for evidence tampering for doing exactly that.

The indicted cops responded to an off-duty cop's DUI crash. They texted each other on their personal phones so as not to create a record. They positioned their bodycams so as not to capture the incident. At one point, one of the cops held the other's to make it look as if he was still standing there while he secretly called their supervisor. They then let the drunk cop drive away. Hours later, another officer found the car parked on the sidewalk. That officer did finally arrest him.

"These police officers did their job. We should not be here today," said union president Patrick Hendry, who accused the DA of targeting the officers. "He needs to support officers instead of going after them. Enough is enough."

To their credit, these charges came based on a referral from NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, though it was 4 years later.

Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/nyregion/nypd-dui-coverup...

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0x3f an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think this is particularly unique to cops. When you're trapped and cornered, you desperately resort to any possible approach to get out of it. Acting incredulous or indignant when you know you've messed up, with the small hope it will get you out of it, is a very common human thing.

	▲	cogman10 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> with the small hope it will get you out of it That's the thing, with how much cops will put on the kids gloves if it's an officer I'm certain the hope isn't small that they'll get out of it. The videos you see of cops getting arrested they are almost always completely blasted.

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formerly_proven 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I doubt it, judges don't read warrant applications.