A rogue cop is one who tells the truth:

[A] former Chicago cop who allegedly has been recorded on tape telling students at Colorado State University that beating suspects and paying off informants with drugs is just a way of life for police in “Chi-town.” …

Yarbrough allegedly told students that paying informants with drugs was acceptable, as long as the informants never revealed where they got the drugs, and that excessive and violent force against a suspect is a “reality of law enforcement.”

“If there’s a news conference going on, I can’t get in front of a crowd and say, ‘He got exactly what the [expletive] he deserved.’ You know the police should have beat him, you know. I used to beat [expletive] when I was in Chicago too. I can’t say that,” the article quotes a recording of Yarbrough as saying.

“I’d have to say, ‘Well, you know we’re going to have to look into this matter seriously . . . all of our officers, we like to think that they operate with the utmost integrity and ethics’ . . . All of that [expletive] sounds good. That [expletive] sounds real good, but in the back of my mind, damn. He got popped. If he would have done it the way we used to do it in Chi-town, man, none of this [expletive] would have happened.”

Of course, Dexter Yarbrough is now the chief of police at Colorado State University, where his duties include alcohol busts, overseeing parking enforcement, and monitoring strange smells in dormitories.  He is now suspended after shocking the school with his frank language.

But one presumes that it was his good performance as a cop on the mean streets of Chicago that got him this plum job in the first place.  Perhaps the search committee for the next head of public safety at CSU should include a professor from the department of communication studies, or at least somebody who’s seen a few Dirty Harry movies.

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