I don’t buy the idea that ‘crooked cops represent order’. And a lot of crooked cops remain on the job merely because of police unions. Those unions work hard to protect their ‘paying customers’. (Workers - and Government! - represent their ‘customers’. They work to protect both no matter the unions’ ostensible pronouncements, or the behavior of either of their ‘protectees’.)
I have very mixed feelings about this - on the one hand, I can’t think of any profession in today’s litigious atmosphere that requires the kind of protection that something like a union may afford, than policing does.
On the other hand, I despise the entire notion of public-sector employee unions.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-public-employee-unions-are-doing-to-our-country/
That was a poor choice of words on my part. I can’t tell a crooked cop from an honest cop from looking at them.