Piss-drunk ON-DUTY cop passes out in his patrol-car in middle of road. DA refuses to file charges.

During his shift, police-officer Meier decided to drive home and get some vodka. He drove under the influence of alcohol and got so piss-drunk, he stopped his car in the middle of the road and passed-out.

He was found by other cops. What did they do? Cover it up, of course.

The incident was not reported as a DUI.
No blood-test was conducted.
The bottle was never examined for content.
The incident was not reported to the DA.

Journalists found out about this months later and the Chief of Police admitted that the case was "mishandled".

The DA refuses to file charges on the grounds that:
- Meier admitted the whole thing during the Internal Affairs investigation. Nothing said during an Internal Affairs investigation may be entered as evidence into court.
- The DA says there is no evidence that Meier was drunk because no evidence was investigated/preserved by the other cops.
- The other cops turned their body-cams on and off during their rescue, so there is no conclusive cam-footage of the scene.
- On the body-cam footage, one officer says to another that Meier is intoxicated and the officer immediately turns off his body-cam.
- The car was not searched for evidence despite the fact that such a search would not require a warrant.
- The bottle of vodka was never preserved as evidence.
- The officers did not try to obtain information from the medical personnell in hospital whether Meier was drunk.
- The DA was not contacted to confer on how to proceed.
- As there was never a DUI-report filed by the time of the incident, the DA cannot get access to Meier's blood-sample in hindsight.



Here is the summary of the DA's statement:
"We refuse to charge him because we have no evidence because the investigation was sabotaged by the cops and the jury would acquit him anyways because there is no evidence."



Fucking pigs.