Basically. He'll get put on paid administrative leave, which cops describe as similar to house arrest during normal working hours, for a few weeks, meanwhile his co-workers will "investigate", and decide he's done no wrong, fully reinstate him, and give him any back pay he may have missed out on.

The problem is a lack of checks and balances, one of the principles of our own government. Police wrongdoing is investigated and decided on by their own people. Sometimes they get a local DA involved, who is almost always on the side of the police, since they scratch each others' backs. If it ends up going to court, the judge drastically favors the police, again, because they scratch each others' backs.

In cases where the police are actually brought to a fair amount of justice (equal to the punishment a non-police officer would receive), the police literally use mob tactics to harass and intimidate those that put them in that position. Here's a recent example of exactly such a situation.

So who do the prosecutors call when the police are using mob tactics against them? Call the police against themselves? That just doesn't work, the police have each others' backs, so that none of them can get in trouble. It's almost like they feel like if one police officer in a department gets in trouble, that opens up a doorway for the rest of them to get in trouble for their corruption.

The most obvious fix would be to develop an independent review board that looks into police misconduct, but that's powerful enough to be free from mob-style tactics, like the FBI or something. There are similar review boards in a few cities in the US, but they lack the power to safely do much of anything.