Let's stop saying bad police officers are rare. Fact is they're plentiful from coast to coast.

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19. Any place I have worked has had between 10% and 20% of employees

that were either incompetent, not smart enough, or just plain in the wrong job to be any good at what they do. The best place I ever worked had about 5% bad apples.

Now for the police, I believe this is a job that draws a certain type of person which sadly is the wrong type for community involvement with ordinary people, but good for dealing with truly bad people and criminals. The biggest problem is that these cops can't or don't want to see the difference. A higher number than normal of sociopaths / psychopaths are drawn to the job and you then add on the incompetent, ignorant, and unsuited you start to have a very large minority of bad cops. Add in the 20% to 30% that is the normal amount of go along to get along people and you start to break into the majority category. The go along to get along category soon increases when it is found that taking a brick out of the blue wall of silence can have serious repercussions. Very few are left that aren't bad or cover for the bad giving you a large majority of bad cops. Most of what remain just stay quiet for their own good.