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If you look back over this thread you wont find anywhere where I said all police officers are bad. What I sometimes ask is: why does that vast majority of good police officers seem unable to stop that tiny minority from doing all those bad things?
tulc(is curious about things)
The problem is that police are a closed group, where they feel most people can't relate to the pressure of their jobs. While police work is not the most dangerous profession, it is by no means safe (ranks 16th in fatalities on the job), and it has the unique position of having a significant number of its fatalities come from being murdered. When you have to rely on your fellow officers to back you up in life and death situations, you develop a comradery that makes it difficult to turn in your coworkers for misdeeds (unless those misdeeds directly put your officers at risk). This insulates most bad cops from being caught or convicted (the "blue wall" you may hear of).
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