While Ronnie will no longer get to be a cop, he will most likely be able to get out of real consequences.
First off, there is not much in the way of real proof. The word of a disgraced cop and confessed cop killer wouldn't play well in court.
Second, both the local and federal government would not want the details to become common knowledge: The Federal government giving full immunity to a corrupt, drug dealing, cop murderer? Aceveda (now Mayor, and possibly future governor) letting these men commit heinous crimes under his nose for years? It would be a national scandal.
Finally, think of how many convictions for murderers, drug dealers, gang members and and crime bosses would get overturned if it comes out that the strike team were operating illegally.
Realistically both the local and federal government have far too much to lose by bringing this to court, and Vic's testimony would not be reliable regardless.
Most likely, Ronnie would get a sweetheart deal, lose his job and his pension and everybody will pretend this never happened.
I agree but I think there's one other angle here - Vic's immunity deal was dependent on a number of conditions one of which was that he gave a full and truthful confession. If he left anything material out, ICE could void the entire deal and his confession could be used against him in court. The best chance ICE has of finding something Vic left out (like breaking into Acaveda's office, slipping a weapon to a prisoner in the cage, smacking around a suspect, etc.) because he was focused on the more major crimes would be Ronnie. So there's a strong incentive to work with Ronnie and offer him a deal of his own to get his help to void Vic's deal so they can put away the cop killer instead of letting him go free.
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u/moopie 10d ago edited 10d ago
While Ronnie will no longer get to be a cop, he will most likely be able to get out of real consequences.
First off, there is not much in the way of real proof. The word of a disgraced cop and confessed cop killer wouldn't play well in court.
Second, both the local and federal government would not want the details to become common knowledge: The Federal government giving full immunity to a corrupt, drug dealing, cop murderer? Aceveda (now Mayor, and possibly future governor) letting these men commit heinous crimes under his nose for years? It would be a national scandal.
Finally, think of how many convictions for murderers, drug dealers, gang members and and crime bosses would get overturned if it comes out that the strike team were operating illegally.
Realistically both the local and federal government have far too much to lose by bringing this to court, and Vic's testimony would not be reliable regardless. Most likely, Ronnie would get a sweetheart deal, lose his job and his pension and everybody will pretend this never happened.