If I had not spent a few years as a civilian HR person working with a medium sized police force I too may have been skeptical about this report.  However, I saw everything that she is talking about and the bullying, harassment, favortism, is not exaggerated.  Much of it was male on male intimidation and the police union was no help.  I believe they would often side with the hierarchy since they had an eye to their own future promotion.  I ended up quitting rather than deal with the outright hostility directed at me when I tried to go to bat for some poor officer who was being squeezed out of a career progression.  I also met "favorites" who I could not figure out why they had ever been hired let alone promoted.  It seems the force it divided into 3: those who can be good officers and turn a blind eye to the abuse, good officers who are the butt of the abuse, and those who run the show like they are immune to employment law.  I heard they hired an internal HR person after I left. Lacky?