Sex, drugs and violence are themes you would expect to find in an action movie, not police culture. Unfortunately, we are faced with a new reality that our police forces are inundated with criminals who hold themselves to a different standard. Recently, a Chattanooga Tennessee police officer was arrested for domestic violence. This alone is not news, it seems to happen every day. What is news however, is that during the investigation the officer was found to have been in contact with, and soliciting prostitutes while working to allegedly protect our streets.
The hypocrisy we see from police officers like Charles Brock, of the Chattanooga PD, must come to an end. In Officer Brock’s case, he was arrested on Christmas night, 2016. According to police, Brock tackled his wife during a physical altercation. According to Brock, he was recording their altercation when his wife tried to retrieve the phone from him. He admitted to pushing her off him, and stated that she must have been injured during the exchange.
In a show of blue privilege, Brock was not arrested. Instead, he was permitted to go into the police department the following day. It was then he was deemed the primary aggressor and charged with domestic assault. Brock had not yet received any discipline for the incident, however, his phone number, email address and name came up during an investigation involving prostitutes. Between July and December 2014, Brock must not have felt the need to use an alternate email or phone number when he contacted several prostitutes for sex.
On one occasion, the prostitute he contacted asked for his work phone number so he could prove he was not a cop. He advised he could not, and instead asked if he could provide two personal references. He also advised the prostitute that once he ‘got there’ he could prove he was not a cop, implying by sleeping with her. Blair was also busted for posting on an online prostitution message board called USA Sex Guide.
Brock is on paid vacation, otherwise known as administrative leave, pending the outcome of an internal investigation. If only one or two officers were outed as being violent sex-driven criminals, then we could say the few bad apples theory was correct. We do, however, see reports of police being arrested for drugs, sex crimes and domestic violence every single day. Charles Brock is just another example of a broken system that no one seems willing to fix.
Sources: Times Free Press, Times Free Press.
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