The good cops should be fighting to stop the whitewash because that makes them all look bad when they allow the corruption to continue.
you will see no disagreement from me on your thought above.
Agreed!
Sadly, though, the media have a tendency to spin the prosecution of the bad elements against the good ones. I saw an article a while back that ranked the most corrupt states by the number of prosecutions of public servants caught pulling some crap.
No, not likely. The most corrupt ones are the ones where they all have each others' backs and no one gets prosecuted.