[niel1]

I have no clue of it being a political issue in this particular instance. I would categorize it under Crime than Politics from the first paragraph I read. From the comments I can see that this would interest some on HN but IMHO this is too regional. If the purpose of HN is to find "Anything that good hackers would find interesting", this does not fit the bill. Answering generally, the topic of police corruption being inherently political or not, isn't it too wide to speculate? Police forces and LEAs are established at multiple levels like City, State/Province, Nationwide. There are factors driving Police corruption from collective psyche of the population they are suppose to serve to the individual choices; from systemic endorsements to ancient traditions, how can one generalize in the scope of the entire World?