Show me where any of us ever said "transparency" IS a virtue with all cops. Truth be told, we've all said we know there are bad cops out there. The fact of the matter is nobody hates a bad cop more than a good cop and that is coming from someone with first-hand knowledge of what some are capable of and who did not look the other way. As far as your example of the TPD cop goes, those were the old days, lots of things, in many different professions, were different then than they are now. What took place with him and maybe others in those days is irrelevant, it has nothing to do with the way things are now.Just sayin'....
Just the comment earlier by one presumably ex-cop that "got out before the cameras, etc..."
That really kind of lets one know that transparency is not a virtue with all LEOs.
I have a friend, ex-TPD that was commenting on the verbal abuse officers take. He said -
"back when I was a patrolman, if one of these guys started saying MF this or MF that, we'd pull him out through the window and put a stop to it right away. Those guys may not have respected us, but they'd at least fear us".
That was a retired TPD officer, and a very respected one at that. He wasn't angry when he said it, it was just him stating how it was.
I like the old dude, I really do. But his nonchalant attitude about escalating to violence over some verbal assault by a punk speaks volumes.