The police have supported police officers on far more egregious actions.
How could her department let this happen to her?
The police did stand up for her. She was acquitted 11-1. Then, just before the statue of limitations was up, the DOJ went after them. Janet Reno’s DOJ. The perps were illegals.
Because Bill Clinton's prosecutors would have eaten them and they knew it. They were afraid.
I happen to know a law enforcement officer that was convicted of something similar during this reign of terror. He was accused of interfering with an investigation when he told another officer "Don't volunteer anything. Just answer the questions they ask." The prosecutors said that this advice constituted interfering with an investigation, sort of like the trumped up bullsh*t against Michael Flynn and Roger Stone.
He said that the Prosecutors told him that they had bigger pockets than he had, and they would run him into bankruptcy defending himself. He would lose his house, his income, and everything he owned, and his family would be out on the street because they would keep filing charges against him until he was broke.
He said rather than have his family lose their home, he decided to take a plea deal, and he spent some years in Federal Prison.
He said they were just looking for convictions for anything they could get so long as they where white. He said the guy that really committed the offense which they were investigating (beating up a Hispanic prisoner in their custody) was his boss, who was black.
They told him that prosecuting the black guy was no good, because it wouldn't send the message that Clinton wanted sent, so they weren't going to do anything to the Supervisor.