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.
To follow TMMT’s logic (that word may not apply in this case) then if you look at the number of a specific race, say blacks, and determine that a large enough number of them cause more problems than any other race, then that makes the entire race a bad race of people. So substitute your argument of using the military for blacks who cause more murders and crime each year and I think it might get through to them. Liberals don’t like the military anyway, but they pretend to like blacks.
No blame for the officers committing the crimes I see... Dud it ever occur to you that these stories make news because some cop hired to uphold the law broke it instead? Those plumbers and cab drivers you cite didn't take an oath nor do they hold power over others, powers to take away rights and to use force to achieve goals.
I'm sorry your so blind to this issue, fortunately more and more people wake up to this problem every day. Hopefully at some point it will be corrected.
And one more thing, there isn't over one million cops in the country ad you cite. The BLS reports there is just under 800,000 total including federal law enforcement. Which makes those rates of offenses by officers that much greater.
As a union guy, you should know that if you have a problem, take it up with the shop steward.