that's the problem with your argument, the few bad apples argument no longer works. The number of bad apples has exceeded the acceptable bushel basket ratio... The law enforcement profession has more than it's share of bad apples.
If I posted every single story I found each day about a cop arrested for a crime or one suspended for serious misconduct it would crash the Free Republic servers...
Wait... who made you the judge of the acceptable “bushel basket ratio?” I can find far more stories involving soldiers than you can of police. Does that then implicate your “bushel basket ratio” or is the ratio “fuzzy” and mailable based on the profession involved? Did it ever occur to you that these stories make the news because the media wants to make them news? How many stories does the media print regarding your local plumbers, nail bangers, bankers, stock brokers, or other professions?
There are 308 MILLION people in this country, and well over a million law enforcement officers in the United States. The fact that you can troll officer.com or an RSS feed from copwatch that collects stories from all over the web (many of which are misreported or spun) doesn’t prove your thesis.
You simply buy the marxist media spin, and bow before your media overlords like a good little puppet. Carry the water of the commies. I’m sure they’ll have a job for you in the politburo.