“… disciplinary records of cops would be “purged,” so that no one, not even their supervisors, would be able to retrieve them.”
“The Arizona Republic… uncovered more than 600 acts of wrongdoing committed by 525 cops (out of 3,000 PD employees) in just the past five years, with 90% of all “serious misconduct” incidents being purges from cops’ records.”
Well… somebody fucked up.
The main ingredient in that “magic sauce”: Guilt Across The Board; union and department have “things” to tell on each other, so they protect each other.