Ultimately individual police officers would prefer to go home at the end of their shifts. People should keep that in mind.
I mean no disrespect to any LEO’s who might be on this thread.
And a few officers, like other human beings, can have rough spots in their private life that cause some acting out in their professional life. It happens in ALL professions.
For many current police, it's just another civil service job. They are in it for the benefits and the retirement package, and have no interest in taking any risks. (Note, I said "many" not "all"). Also, police depts with tight budgets cannot afford the medical and disability costs of having an injured cop, so police management tends to emphasize a policy of "officer safety above all", even when individual cops would want to go after the bad guys.
LEO’s are human like the rest of us.