VIDEO: 17 Cops Caught Cheating On Police Exam, Group Sleeping at Work—Nobody Fired

Nearly 20 law enforcement officials will keep their jobs after they were caught cheating on an open-book exam that is required by the department.

WATCH: Cop ‘Un-Arrested’ for DUI in His COP CAR, Epitomizing Why People are Upset

Sycamore, IL — The Sycamore Police Department and its Chief of Police, Glenn Theriault, are under the microscope today after dashcam footage was released showing how Elgin police officer Sgt. Mark T. Whaley was allegedly given special treatment during his DUI arrest proceedings.

The incident happened April 8, when Sycamore officer Luke Kampmeier pulled Whaley over for driving erratically, even cutting off another driver without using his turn signal. In the video, Kampmeier asks Whaley if he’d been drinking.

The 20-year veteran police officer admitted to only having drunk one beer, but his comportment gave the officer probable cause to issue a field sobriety test, which Whaley refused. According to reports, there was an unopened beer inside the vehicle, and Kampmeier said on video he could smell alcohol on the Elgin officer’s breath.

Whaley refused any and all field sobriety tests offered to him, was handcuffed, placed in the back of Kampmeier’s patrol car, and taken to jail sometime after 2:00 am. Closer to 4:00 Whaley was allowed to walk out of jail without being charged with Driving Under The Influence (DUI).

Records show Sycamore Chief Theriault made several calls to Elgin police commanders before he was released. Also, Whaley’s car, a police-issued pickup truck, was returned to the officer. Reports say Theriault used to be an officer with the Elgin Police Department, as a commander before he became Chief of Police for Sycamore.

Whaley was released by police after they said they did not have enough evidence to charge the officer with driving under the influence of alcohol. But critics contend the whole incident is an example of blue privilege, whereby the officer was allowed to walk free after committing a crime the rest of us get charged for.

The Elgin Police Department says the incident is between Whaley and Sycamore PD, and refuse to comment. However, the City of Sycamore seems to be taking the matter very seriously.

According to the Daily Chronicle;

Sycamore Police Chief Glenn Theriault has been on paid administrative leave since April 10 as the city investigates the decision to let Whaley go without charges early that morning. Theriault, who joined the Sycamore force as chief in January 2015, worked closely with Whaley on the Elgin police force for years, Elgin Police Chief Jeff Swoboda has said.

In other words, it appears as though Chief Theriault and Sgt. Whaley are good buddies.

The fact a police officer was allowed to walk free without being charged with DUI did not escape being noticed by followers of the story. Citizen Mark Wells voiced his opinion about the department’s decision to let the officer go with a slap on the wrist.

Wells wrote, “These two police chiefs should both be fired and arrested for conspiring to release an officer who had been arrested and charged with DUI.” He described his own experiences being on the wrong side of the law. “I’ve been clean and sober for 23 years. Getting DUIs was absolutely horrible. It was the worst feeling you can possibly imagine.”

” I lost my license for 7 years the last time. I served 30 days in county jail and spent a year on home monitoring with an ankle bracelet.”

The financial toll was back breaking Wells wrote, “I paid thousands of dollars in fines and spent several years on probation. I did a year of mandatory alcohol counseling, which is expensive. I carried the mandatory SR-22 insurance which is thousands of dollars a year for three years even though I couldn’t drive.”

He also described the shame associated with being arrested and outed as someone who drank alcohol then chose to drive.

In addition to getting in trouble, there is a lot of shame and humiliation that goes along with getting a DUI. Your name is published in the newspaper. All of your friends and everyone you know is aware that you got a DUI. Some people never speak to you again. Random people call you for weeks harassing you. It’s a serious offense and I’m not complaining, just listing the consequences.

I quit drinking and changed my entire life to avoid it ever happening again. I did finally get my license back, which I am very grateful for. But if I ever got another one I would lose my license for the rest of my life and do some serious prison time. I would rather be arrested for robbing a bank, I’m not kidding.

Why should citizens be crucified and the very people doing the enforcement just walk away?

Many who are following this story share Wells’ frustration. Whether or not Whaley was actually drunk, perceived to be drunk, or was under the influence of some other substance, the people will never know. But if Whaley had been given the same type of treatment others have been subjected to, the issue would have been a matter of public record.

As The Free Thought Project has reported, forced catheterizations by police are taking place in South Dakota, against a person’s will, to extract drug and alcohol evidence against suspects who’ve been accused of DUI.

And according to the Brian Roberts Law firm, “Many Illinois police are beginning to apply for a warrant to draw your blood when you refuse the mandatory breath test.” All of this leads many to question why the Sycamore Police Department didn’t forcefully take a sample of Whaley’s blood as many IL departments are doing.

The answer appears to be as disturbing as the incident. There’s blue privilege at work, and those who will kidnap, cage, and possibly kill you over a DUI, will give their buddies a free pass for doing the same thing.

Worse still is the fact the officer has been allowed to return to duty, writing DUI tickets, making drug busts, and DUI arrests. In the eyes of many, the special treatment Whaley received reaches the absolute heights of hypocrisy.

Ex-NYPD Cop Gets 15 Months for Pimping Hundreds of Women to NY’s Elite

New York, NY — There are only eight counties in the United States where prostitution is legal, all in Nevada. But that didn’t stop one retired police officer, who was drawing disability and receiving a pension, from starting up his own escort service, raking in millions of dollars in the process.

Unfortunately for Michael Rizzi (45), his fellow law enforcement officers found out about it and put a stop to it. Rizzi was arrested last year when it was discovered he operated 58 escort service websites.

The Department of Homeland Security investigated Rizzi and arrested him at his Brooklyn home in May of 2016. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to 14 months in prison for money laundering.

After he serves his time, the dirty ex-cop will spend four months in home confinement and two years probation. He forfeited over $120,000 in cash as well as his Florida vacation home.

Reportedly, Rizzi raked in millions upon millions of dollars and laundered the money through a vast system of shell corporations connected to organized crime. DHS can hardly be pleased with only recovering a little over one hundred thousand dollars. All of which begs the question, “Where’s the rest of the money?”

Also concerning to some was the fact the former police officer wasn’t charged with running an illegal prostitution ring. His lawyer reportedly defended his client’s actions saying the only business with which he was engaged was an escort service and the women knew there were not obligated to perform sexual favors for clients.

Rizzi’s business was called BJM Manhatten Stakes and Entertainment and directed interested Johns to call booking agents to set up the dates with high paid escorts earning as little as $600 per hour with one reportedly bringing in $25,000 in one 24 hour period.

Judge Carol Amon presided over the criminal case and ordered his assets seized, which included the websites as well. U.S. Attorney Bridget Rhode reflected on the life of the former law enforcement officer.

“Michael Rizzi left behind a life of law enforcement for a new career in which he flagrantly disregarded the law and exploited others for his own enrichment…This office is committed to dismantling money laundering organizations, including those which promote and capitalize on illegal prostitution.”

If it’s true Mr. Rizzi took in millions; then the Feds walked away with very little to show for their investigative efforts. Web sites can be replaced, as well as the home and the chump change confiscated.

But those who are caught up in human trafficking, who may have unwillingly worked for Rizzi at one time or another, may be the real victims in the former law enforcement officer’s shady schemes.

For those who want to go down the rabbit hole into conspiracy theories, one could ask the question why the Feds chose not to investigate the prostitution ring, and its connections to wealthy clients, such as politicians, billionaires, etc.

After all, in the very beginning, the Feds made it clear they were only concerned with the money laundering, a crime for which the federal government receives no revenue. Homeland Security Investigations Assistant in Charge Steven Schrank said, “At the end of the day, we’re focused on the money laundering and organized crime connections to this investigation.”

Schrank claimed Rizzi “moved multiple millions of dollars through shell corporations that operated in and out of New York, and in the financial crime arena, we’re very concerned about the movement of illicit proceeds through shell corporations.”

Absent from his concerns were any mention of the human assets who, one could say, were trafficked from John to John, whether or not they did so willingly or not.

Maybe the answer to the question of why the Feds chose to go after the money instead of The Who’s Who of clients comes from Rizzi’s own admission. He reportedly bragged, “I’m number one for a reason…I get the most business, my girls make the most money, my clients are the wealthiest people in the world.”

In the Land of the Free, it is against the law to get paid to have sex, unless that sex is filmed, distributed on DVD, and taxed. One of the least talked about systems of oppression in the US is that of persecuting prostitutes.

When referencing prostitution, we are talking about the mutually beneficial exchange of sexual favors for money by two or more consenting partners; not forced human trafficking.

It’s called the “oldest profession in the world” for a reason. Sex is a basic human need. One need only observe the explosive population growth of humans in the last 10,000 years to see that desire to mate is inherent in each and everyone one of us.

When one takes this into consideration, the notion of outlawing consensual sex is seen for what it is, sheer insanity.

Just like the war on drugs creates crime by pushing the unending demand for illicit substances into the black market, the war on the sex trade creates crime in the same manner.

Because the demand for sex is pushed into dark alleys and late night street corners, a woman working in the sex trade becomes far more vulnerable than if they were legally allowed to operate out of brick and mortar setups. This danger of working on the street drives the need for protection from pimps who are often more abusive than any customer would be.

Despite the tens of thousands of arrests each year, the market has found a way to provide the service of sex using safer solutions. In spite of the laws, sellers of sex have found ways to safely conduct business by setting up “massage” parlors, using phone books, and, of course, the internet — like Rizzi.

Besides being an immoral gang of thieves, the state is also relentless. They have deep pockets of extorted tax dollars of which to dig in to enforce their distorted will on the people.

Despite prostitution arrests dropping from 2001 to 2010, the cost of arresting people for sex remains staggeringly high. Individual cities continue to spend up to $23 million a year stopping people from having voluntary sex.

Meanwhile, involuntary sex goes uninvestigated at an alarming rate. Hundreds of thousands of rape kits are sitting in police departments across the country — collecting dust, as cops petition the government to allow them to have sex with prostitutes so they can then bust them.

In police state USA, truth is stranger than fiction.