Little does he know that given the chance, any one of them would knock him off in a heartbeat. Marching with them, giving gang signs with them, sharing photo-ops with them only makes him look like he condones everything they’ve been doing. He’s not paid to take sides and hang with the homies. In my world, he would have already been suspended without pay.
Who says he isn’t one? From a gang banger standpoint you couldn’t ask for a better cop.