Police Union Caught Issuing ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards to Family, Friends That Get Them Out of Tickets
Known as a blue privilege, there's a practice among police officers: once they catch their fellow cop, or maybe their fellow cop’s loved one or friend breaking the law, they're abandoning without consequence. Situations that have led to the murder of minorities and poor people end far differently when its police and their families caught committing an equivalent crime . A recent return of Vice shows that this corruption runs so deep that police unions actually issue courtesy cards to friends and family of cops that allow them to urge out of minor infractions. The cards are issued by the Police Benevolent Association or other police unions and that they are referred to as “courtesy cards.” they need the issuing officer’s name and signature on the rear , alongside a telephone number for the ticketing or arresting off...