This is Joe Arpaio Level Sh%$

 LA County Sheriff Alex Vianueva has established a "Public Integrity Unit" whose responsibilities appear to consist entirely of harnessing his critics.

This is exactly what Joe Arpaio did, and I'm inclined to believe that this is more the exception than the rule:

The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is apparently incapable of being reformed. Over the years, the LASD has run an illegal prison informant program, one that culminated in an FBI investigation during which the LASD threatened FBI agents and federal witnesses.

But what can one really expect from an agency willing to staff itself with statutory rapists, thieves, and cops considered unable to be hired anywhere else? The department is so internally corroded it has become the home for gangs and cliques of rogue officers who revel in deploying excessive force and violating rights.

The only thing that can bring the LASD down is its critics and its oversight. The Department knows this and that's why it's taking action to clean itself up. Oh wait, it's the other thing.

The unit, named the Civil Rights and Public Integrity Detail, has pursued a long-running investigation into one of Villanueva’s most vocal critics, L.A. County Inspector General Max Huntsman, and others despite sheriff’s officials being told by the FBI and state law enforcement officials that it appeared no crimes had been committed, a senior sheriff’s official said.

The team also has an open criminal inquiry into a nonprofit that is run by a member of a county board that oversees the sheriff and is associated with county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, both of whom have clashed fiercely with Villanueva and called for his resignation.

This internal hit squad has traveled so far out of bounds even notorious cop defenders don't feel like defending it. The LASD's union has warned the rank-and-file from interacting with the "Public Integrity Detail" due to some "unconventional" questioning tactics when speaking to officers. And the DA says it's so obviously dirty he wants nothing to do with it.

This is the Thin Blue Line, and it is corrupt, and oft murderous.

This culture needs to be expunged from society.