I had an old roommate who was the political whistle-blower for NYC police when they lied about the number of minorities they arrest. He was instrumental in getting attention to the disproportionate number of minorities adversely affected by stop and frisk. As an analyst, he had access to the actual raw data and was the one actually creating the reports internally and decided to do speak out when, despite his reportin…
If your takeaway from that anecdote is "don't whistleblow" I feel like you're in a different dimension than me. My takeaway is that he probably has a viable lawsuit and maybe pay somebody 5k for some SEO, or change his name for free.
I don’t think that’s the takeaway. I think the comment simply meant to shed some light on the personal consequencea of the whistleblower that might go under the radar - both for readers and the whistleblowers themselves prior to the act.