Louisville detective demoted after helping inmate who says she was wrongly convicted of murder, his lawyer says

Good point...and bear in mind that some of the stone-throwers very well may not have even been on the department "back in the day" when this person, or that person, actually was the "real police" riding a beat.

The VAST majority of the department has less than 10 years on, and in many ways, that isn't a very long time.