What an awesome story. You're a hero, Barry! We NEED a show like Kopbusters, because there are too many crooked ones, and way too few good ones. They get drunk with their perceived power, and we see stories of their corruption in the news, but little is actually done about it.

When I was a background investigator for the federal government (doing backgrounds on current and potential federal employees), I had to go to police stations a lot to get printouts of criminal histories. I carried a large badge that looked like an FBI one (unless you looked really closely). The difference in how the police treated me when I came in with that badge was SO different from how they treated me if I encountered them as a private citizen. They treated me with amazing respect, chatted me up, tried to get me to stay longer to talk if they were bored (common in small town police stations), and ALWAYS wanted to hold my badge, because it looked cooler than theirs. This, compared to the douchebag, holier-than-thou attitude I encountered on the rare occasion I spoke to one without my badge on me.

I get freaked out nowadays if I even pass a cop car in traffic. I'm not doing anything wrong, but I never know when some random, power-tripping cop will decide I am. I try to avoid police whenever I can now. I wouldn't even call them unless an intruder was ACTUALLY in my house. I just don't trust them. We need more people like you who are willing to go the extra mile to expose them and make the USA safer for all of us. THANK YOU for what you do. Respect.