I won't try to change anyone's opinion here, but I want to try to clear up confusion about the "fellow officer rule". The fellow officer rule simply means that police may rely on information relayed by their "fellow officer" when determining if an arrest or citation is appropriate. For example, officer Smith sees John the Town Drunk smash his car into a busload of nuns. Officer Jones only does not witness this and instead only sees John the Town Drunk walking away from the car. Jones can arrest based on what Smith (his fellow officer) tells him even if Jones did not witness the suspect behing the wheel.

The rule DOES NOT mean that cops will lie and say they saw something that they did not. Again, I won't try to change anyone's opinion, but its important to understand that the cops are not saying that they lie when they talk about the fellow officer rule.