I’ve come across this statement many times in movies and novels. Right now I’m reading a book about a cop who gets arrested for murder, so I wonder, what’s the story in real life.
Do cops who go to prison face any special dangers? I assume they’re given special treatment and protection. Wouldn’t the guards (who are cops too) try to make sure that their “brothers” are taken care of?
I’m talking about “acceptable” crimes, not crimes against children and the like.
Any prison guards reading this?
Peace,
mangeorge
Hmm… maybe this should go in the “brushes with history” thread too…
I’ll tell you my own experience. I personally put the LAPD officers that beat Rodney King in jail. Yes, me personally. It is a long story, but I produced a computer enhancement of the Rodney King video for the second trial, and this turned out to be the single most important piece of evidence, according to the jury that convicted them. The officers argued that a jail sentence was tantamount to a death sentence, so they got to serve their sentences in Club Fed, at a minimum security facility.
So yes, cops do get special treatment.
BTW, I was inspired to change my .sig just on account of this topic.
As I understand it, cops who are sentenced to prison not put in the general popualtion, but are segregated for their protection. Kinda like solitary confinement.
I don’t think the guards would be willing to go to the wall for a cop in prison. They have pretty much disgraced themselves and their profession. Guards may even want to make hard on these guys.
My brother-in-law’s brother(what does that make him to me?) is a prison guard. I’d ask him, but he is such a prick…
Well, it’s only common sense to not treat cops as “regular prisoners”, because, frankly, they’re not. Let’s ignore the images we saw in Tango & Cash for a moment and just think rationally… cops, and the guys that (supposedly) hate cops. Mix the two together and… boom.
While some (like me) may call it poetic justice to send rogue cops to the slammer, others will call it “Cruel And Unusual”.
On the other hand, knowing that they’ll be tossed to the wolves in prison would serve as incentive to keep cops straight (legally, not sexually).
LMAO at that jailrape “keeping cops straight” pun SPOOFE! Whether it was intended or not 
— G. Raven
Over in the UK they are generally put in Vulnerable Prisoner units, where they spend their higher security time but they then usually go rapidly to minimum security jails.
We have a couple of jails that cater for the ultra-low risk for crooked accountants, celebrities like naughty sports stars.
I have heard of one policeman who was so crooked and so much part of his local crime scene that he was put into the general population and was looked upon by other cons as being ‘alright’.
We had one in the low security section of my jail who worked in Northern Ireland who invited anyone who thought they were good enough totry and take him t, needless to say he had the goods and no-one bothered him.
I figured as much.
Funny, they don’t seem to hesitate to put weak, sissy-boy types in population. I’m not talking about gay men, but the weak, youngish, vunerable type.
Peace,
mangeorge
“Funny, they don’t seem to hesitate to put weak, sissy-boy types in population.”
They probably encourage it for the inmates pleasure.
At least I can see why cops here try so very much to not get any prison sentences.
I’ve seen former cops and former prison guards doing time in prison. Undoubtedly, there were many others who I didn’t know about. Generally, most of them will simply try to not discuss their former occupation. This is not as difficult as it sounds, because prioners in general are usually reticent about their past lives and have few ways to verify other prisoners’ stories.
maybe he just told the story to scare us, but . . .
When I was in the academy, one of our instructors told us about a former friend of his who had been a crooked cop in Seattle in the 1970’s. This cop was eventually convicted of killing a man who wouldn’t pay for protection. My instructor said he visited his old friend in prison. This guy was hated by the prisoners because he had been a cop and hated by the guards because he was crooked. He was in solitary 24/7. And he said that three meals a day, he had to pick shit out of his food before he ate it.
True or not, I don’t think any of us could ever imagine turning bad.