OK. As long as you’re not wrapping all cops into that description. I know a lot of good cops. I know some bad ones too. They don’t last long here. We have a by-the-book chief who tolerates no badge heavy a$$holes on his force.
Good Lord no! Just in the past week I’ve called a dog shooting as fully justified (he really was being attacked by them and even took a bite before he shot them), noted that the context in a beat down of a man thrown from a van in a chase made the brief beating he got understandable (he clipped the cop putting out the tack strip), declined an opportunity to ping a thread were a cop destroyed his foreclosed home before turning it over to the bank (he wasn’t operating under color of authority), mentioned that when the SJPD came to my house to search for a meth lab they were perfect gentlemen (Seriously!), noted it as a hopeful sign that when two Killeen cops were shot (one fatally) in a wee hours no-knock raid that the home owners were not summarily executed.
Most cops are good and decent people, the full glare of sunlight, which is a powerful disinfectant, needs to be shown on the bad ones.