I’ve met several, had discussions with them, watched them operate on the streets for 16 years (1984 - 2001.) Those guys at that time always did the right thing when I watched; except once.
Perhaps the department has changed since then. Given the limp-d**k leadership, it may be that the good ones left.
Seattle has Ben paying out big money on lots of civil rights claims over the past decade or so.
For one thing, cops back then weren't into mind-altering drugs like anabolic steroids and stuff like that. There are MANY cops today who are on steroids and other drugs, and that crap totally distorts their mental capacity to be a respectable policeman. On the other side of physique, a lot of them are fatsos.
There is also the racial quota system, wherein merit is not necessarily the reason for hiring/reward, and so forth.
There are also the feminist butch women "cops" who have a chip on their shoulder to match their general contempt for mankind and society.
Then there is the FACT that many people who become cops today have some kind of psychopathic interest in having a weapon and power over the little people, and subsequently abuse that power.
Some are corrupt, some are not. Some are into steroids and other drugs, some are not. Point is, these "cops" of today are not the same policemen of yesterday by a LONG SHOT.