YOU'RE NOT VERY HONEST!
Corrupt dirty ex-cop Leo A. "Sad" Sacco, Jr. turned a blind eye to a boatload of malfeasance from disgraced cop Stephen Lebert. Leo Sacco swept the crimes under the rug and would turn on the victims with choice names for them. Then, when Lebert became national news for threatening to kill a man, caught on tape, two things happened:
a)Lebert was finally removed after years of infamy
b)Sacco was exposed for sweeping dirty cop crimes under the rug. Protecting what he allegedly called his "family" of police officers.
My approach to the public records request is to get hold of the thirty names - the 27 disciplined cops and the three that have been "invisibled" - not exonerated but not disciplined, out of the 45 involved in the investigation of the Cradock Bridge scandal.
A media colleague and I on the phone discussed this at length on Friday. (It's now midnight, Saturday 10/12/19, exactly; Perry Mason incredible first season episodes on...very Mickey Spillane before they changed their approach!) My colleague's comment came in the form of a question. "What about the honest cops?"
I stated that the honest cops were tainted by the police misconduct, more so that the names were not revealed.
My colleague said "But if the honest cops know and say nothing, how honest are they?"
Indeed.