The speaker acknowledges that he participated in illegal activities while working as a police officer and that the department's culture facilitated such behavior.

“when I was there there was um uh victims that would talk to us but they wouldn't press charges on gang members who robbed them extort them or even rape their daughters they wouldn't press charges so they'll talk to us and tell us hey we have a problem we're dealing with this gang member from this ne”

A culture of police corruption is driven by the fact that officers feel they are above the law and entitled to make their own decisions regarding justice.

“every [ __ ] one of us had gangster in us because we were the law and we made the law we were the law we made decisions on the spot yeah that would change your life Make It or Break It and no one would stop us”

He believes the culture within police departments often functions as a club that protects its members at all costs, sometimes involving the cover-up of illegal actions.

“I think I think a lot of it is like the culture of police departments it's very much and even in my experience with officers it's very much kind of a club and there is this like brothers in blue sort of attitude and protect each other at all costs and sometimes that means uh covering up covering up ”

Internal corruption was a pervasive problem because individuals could be compromised or turned against their colleagues at any time.

“but people can be corrupted like from one day to another right so we were careful about everything”

Senior police officials who deliberately choose to withhold resources from investigations to avoid negative publicity are guilty of misconduct in a public office and should be imprisoned.

“when the chief constable and assistant chief constables make a deliberate decision to close a job down like that they should be in prison I'm afraid they are guilty of misconduct in a public office”

He believes that corrupt officers like Mike Dowd deserve to remain in prison.

“And in in our opinion, he should still be in prison. For a lot of stuff.”

Police corruption is morally wrong and unethical, and officers who engage in it should be held accountable just like the offenders they arrest.

“I told him that it was morally wrong and totally unethical and I was not going to engage indulge in that practice”

Reckless Ben alleges that local police in American Fork, Utah, are actively covering up theft and fabricating charges to impede his investigation.

“The reason he's reaching out to me is because the police are covering this entire thing up. And at this moment, I promise >> I'll say when I heard that for the first time, I was like, that has to be a little stretch, right? >> I got a little hyperbolic. The police don't care. >> Oh, the police don't”

LeMaire Lee believes that Lego resellers likely pay kickbacks to the police to prevent people from recovering their property.

“Well, I think Bricks and Miniigs gives the cops some kickbacks.”

She believes that the actions of certain officers, such as selling evidence, suggest that allegations of police corruption in the area are likely true.

“I mean I feel like there's proof of what people saying like I feel like there's proof that it's true and hi maybe we do need someone on the outside in charge of of all of this”