&gt; As early as 1998<p>It&#x27;s 2015, lodging complaint&#x27;s that go nowhere for nearly two decades isn&#x27;t &quot;policing&quot; themselves; arresting their fellow police officers for breaking the law is policing themselves and that&#x27;s extremely rare.  The thin blue line is a real thing, cops shun cops who rat on cops and since cops tend to only hang out with other cops, or fireman, being shunned matters. Civilians in general don&#x27;t like hanging around with cops so it&#x27;s a very segregated little culture.<p>&gt; In other words officers were policing themselves to the point of triggering Internal Investigations.<p>Meaningless ploys to cover their asses that nearly always end in nothing being found.<p>I used to be a cop, I&#x27;ve known hundreds of cops because of this, in general (meaning yes there are exceptions) they&#x27;re idiots and jocks who take the job because they get paid to be bullies and they like the power.  They don&#x27;t give a shit about your rights or you at all, they care about their stats and how they rank in comparison with each other.. who got more busts, it&#x27;s like a sport to them.  They compete.  It wasn&#x27;t for me, I switched to IT.<p>&gt; if the parents proposal has no point, and you have identified the problem, what is your proposed solution?<p>As I said, identifying the problem isn&#x27;t the issue, never has been.  There is no solution to police corruption other than the public getting fed up with them and firing them all; they will not police themselves, internal affairs is a joke, and even the good cops generally keep quite in order to not be ostracized. Time and again cops are caught doing bad things, suspended for &quot;investigation&quot;, and the investigation finds no wrongdoing  after the media storm has died down and the cop is put back on the streets.<p>Police are corrupt; that&#x27;s simply life.