I've known a LOT of cops

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81. Yes, you will find the good, the bad, and the

ugly with any police force just like you will any other group in society. However, if the good cops don't stand up against the bad cops then they will be painted with the same brush as the bad cops. They become guilty by association. More and more people are becoming scared of and do not trust police officers because there are way to many stories of cops that are shooting family pets and/or family members or just flat out being bullies and abusing their authority.

We live in a society where more laws are being passed trying to make it illegal to video police officers in action. Videos posted on the internet sometimes become the only means to document illegal acts committed by the vary people who are tasked to protect society. Too many police forces coverup police misdeeds to the point where the assumption is made that justice will not be served and bad cops will not be prosecuted. The Pope and the Vatican for decades have covered up priests who are child molesters just as police departments far to often cover up crime by police officer(s). The concept is the same.

Until Police Administration, state/city officials, and fellow cops begin to treat bad cops like the criminals that they are, then the good cops have no right to complain about they way they are viewed by society because they in fact are not protecting the people they were hired to serve.

Edit to add: That is just the plain hard facts of life.