[janice1999]

This isn't about police exercising their judgement. It's about creating a privileged class who are above the law. This is gang behaviour.

[caslon]

Police are gangs, though, definitionally.

[dole]

Takes a criminal to catch one, as they say. Deputy gangs have been around since the 1970's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs