I have to wonder why good cops tolerate the bad ones and the stupid ones (can’t tell what floor the warrant is supposed to be served on? C’mon. Even Chicago cops can’t be that illiterate.). Do they have any idea how much of their credibility is being compromised here?
It’s the whole notion of closing ranks to protect your “brothers.”
A feelings that is absolutely essential to men doing dangerous work, BTW, but one that seems to be getting increasingly out of hand, IMO.
I am in a line of work where there are crooks, as in most lines of work, and I am more offended by them and want to see them punished than the average person is. They make me and the other good guys look bad. I have no idea why so many cops don’t seem to feel the same way about bad cops.
In an early scene of the excellent movie The Big Easy Dennis Quade explains that it’s very simple on the street, it’s the good guys versus the bad guys.
Of course the rest of the movie demonstrates conclusively that good guys can very easily morph into bad guys, sometimes without even fully realizing what they are doing.