It’s a shame that common decency anymore is so notable that it requires a news story.
I do more than my fair share of griping about law enforcement, but I’m sure you could fill 100 papers every day with good things that cops do.
I just don’t happened to think that it overrides the bad.
It’s just like Shakespeare wrote:
“The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
- Julius Caesar, from Marc Antony’s funeral oration.
I think there are several reasons why someone would want to be LEO.
Desire to Protect and Serve
Looking for a relatively easy job
likes the idea of being a legal bully
There have always been the bullies and the donut connoisseurs. Hopefully there are still more than a few of the Protect and Serve ones around.