How can police departments around the country improve?
1) Don’t hire people who can’t pass a mental stability test.
2) Rotate cops in and out of trouble areas, on a regular basis, so they don’t have to deal with dopers, dealers, pimps, and other lowlifes every single work day.
3) Retest for mental stability at least yearly.
4) Have custodians who do not do policing, clean out squad cars, after cops bring in suspects who have defecated in their cars (a frequent occurrence, often on purpose; sometimes out of fear or stress). Any idea how disgusting, discouraging, and demoralizing it is to have to clean out your car, after some scumbag you’ve had to deal with and arrest, deliberately craps all over the backseat? That should be a custodian’s job, NOT the arresting officer, but in a lot of places, it’s the cop who gets that job.
All of the above can make a cop’s job a lot easier, and help prevent burn out.
They'll just lie.