Like many Americans, especially those on the political left, I have a distrust of the police.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had several negative experiences that have left me jaded, including one in which I am the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit. My brain defaults to thinking the worst of the men and women in blue.\u00a0 That\u2019s often unfair, and it\u2019s something that I\u2019m trying to overcome. One thing I realized very recently was that, as in any other vocation, there are some police officers who are born whistleblowers.\u00a0 Like any others, they revealed the truth when they were witness to waste, fraud, abuse, illegality, or threats to the public health or public safety.\u00a0 That\u2019s something to be celebrated. It\u2019s hard to be (or to have been) a whistleblower in the intelligence community.\u00a0 You become an outcast among the people you considered to be friends, among people whom you once trusted with your life.\u00a0 It\u2019s not an easy transition going from one-time insider to persona non grata.\u00a0 But it happens, not just in the intelligence community, but among the police, too. And in many cases, the fallout for police whistleblowers is at least\u00a0as bad as it is for whistleblowers elsewhere\u00a0in government.<\/p>\n
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