“We go on and on about the occasional bad cop.”
One bad apple... Okay we need to clean up a lot of police departments across America because of a few bad apples that are spoiling the bunch.
Then and only then can we rid ourselves of the thugs.
You’re not thinking straight. You demand absolute perfection from police departments before we can clean up thugs? That’s childish.
The truth is that police have far higher self reporting of bad behavior than lawyers, doctors, etc. No other profession has a higher level of self reporting.