Anchorage Police Officer Found To Be An Illegal Immigrant

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Originally Posted by DrPhil

Corrupt cop is someone who uses being a police officer for some illegal gain. In that sense, I agree with you because this person was corrupt before becoming an officer and was actually a good officer. Funny how that works.

I just don't see that the word corruption applies here. My clients aren't corrupt, they're felons, they do illegal things, but they're not corrupt.

I don't know what YMMV means but I know my last paragraph is not what you were implying. You always catch me mid-edit.

Edit faster! YMMV= Your Mileage May Vary. This doesn't shock me, it might shock you. And yeah pre-edit it seemed like a straw man, I see what you mean now.

Yeah the police dept probably wants to get on that and figure out where it fucked up. But the guy? Eh.

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Was he corrupt in the terms of a politician accepting a bribe... No, but that doesn't mean that the LEO community doesn't see this guy as being a corrupt/dirty cop. In this case I think people need to get past their knee jerk reaction when the topic of immigration comes up and actually think about what this guy did to get his little position of authority. Think about it.

Did he take the identity to get the job or was he living with the identity prior to getting the job. It's not clear from the article and you're assuming the former unless you have more information from somewhere.

Also I think general apathy is the exact opposite of a kneejerk reaction. And I'd rather the LEO community think that domestic abusers are dirty cops, myself. But they seem to get a pass. (Hell, LEO get a pass on a LOT of things, we have apparently found the end of the thin blue line. /snark) That's just not what corruption means.

Look I say this as someone who generally feels that police officers should be held to a HIGHER standard than the average citizen, but the only damn I give is that the city should fix its hiring practices (although whether an investigator is actually the best answer or not I don't know. What's the gold standard, what's cost effective, etc.).