This is the story of a young man who got mugged delivering pizzas.
He reported it to the police, and then the cops called him in to look at mug shots.
None of them resembled the guy who robbed him, and then the cop pressured him to falsely identify one of the photographs, which he refused, and then he filed a complaint with the lieutenant, who spent two hours trying to convince him not to file.
He later talked with his dad, and the man who would later become his father-in-law, who worked for the district attorney's office, and they both gave the same advice, quit his job and sell his car or report it stolen, and then to lay low.
They told him this because they believed that the cops would plant drugs in his car to discredit his report.
He left Chicago forever shortly after this.
Even if no one at the Chicago PD was actually planning to plant drugs in his car, the fact that his dad, and his dad's friend who worked at the DA's office (as an accountant) told him to engage in extreme measures to prevent retaliation under the color of law, says a lot about the profoundly toxic culture of law enforcement, and not just in Chicago.
This is what the thin blue line is, and this is what the thin blue line flag symbolizes.
This is a profoundly dysfunctional and corrupt state of affairs, and it needs to end.
It is corrosive to society.
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