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There are good police officers though who do want to help.
Not in the current system. Down to the local precinct they are required to cover for their less kind / more brutal brethren in blue.
If you are in law enforcement in the US in the 2020s, you need to get out. The system really is that comprehensively corrupt.
This is what the right cannot hear, this is the optics I'm talking about. We can't say the quiet part out loud.
I am not convinced that literally all cops are bastards, there are some who are trying to change the system from within, we need to hold these people up as exemplars.
They don't try very hard. If they do, they get demoted, discharged or dead very quickly.
Efforts to change the system from within have been going on for over a century now. We've seen the same patterns of corruption and brutality surface, get confronted and then dismissed with the same inaction.
No, they're all bastards to the last, and even those who quit have to confront the injustice in which they've personally participated just to sleep at night. Law enforcement in the US exhibits a lot of similarities to Heydrich's Sicherheitsdienst and engages in the same kind of overpolicing in order to justify its violence and continued existence.
As for those unwilling to hear it, or who buy into the pervasive pro-police propaganda in the media, they put themselves at risk, for the face-eating leopards are very much on the prowl.