Complaint Review: Philadelphia Police

How's this for the ultimate ripoff: Thomas Bray, a Philadelphia police officer decorated for bravery, was murdered the day after he testified against another cop, Sergeant Shawn Dougherty. Officer Bray's drowning death was officially ruled an accident. Yeah, I'm sure that cops always accidentally die in scuba diving accidents the day after they testify against other cops. Even knowing that Officer Bray was a potential retaliation target and that his equipment's safety may have been compromised, a certain cop on the surface is responsible for the long delay before divers responded to the hero cop's requests for help.

Naturally, the tampered-with scuba-diving equipment has since been destroyed. Way to shed light on the murder of a hero cop! There was even an episode of the old television show "Sea Hunt" which depicted a murder attempt using tampered-with scuba gear. Unfortunately, Officer Bray's such victimization was not a fictitious TV episode.

One can only speculate if Tom's killers were influenced by that episode. Police chat room chatter suggests that cops had discussed killing Bray the day before it happened. Officer Bray's murderers were never brought to justice because criminal cops do not arrest criminal cops. Philadelphia has the most crooked police department in the nation, according to Amnesty International. A navy diver obviously familiar with the situation says it well in this post on Officer Down Memorial Page's website: "I pray for Officer Bray and his family this evening, I pray that those who killed him and those who covered tracks are brought to justice." -- Master Diver, U.S. Navy