Yes there are bad cops. In some places more than others. Its a tough job to do well. Of those willing to do it many have a power trip type motivation. Some have better motivations but the nature of the job is too tough for them to keep being professional. There is also the divided loyalties one has to struggle with when one sees a fellow officer go over the line. And there is never any shortage of people that condemn all cops. I would not want to do the job myself. Am not sure I have the temperament. So yeah...I’m thankful for those cops, be it many or few, who do their job well.
Bad cops who are fully protected by the thin blue line of "good" cops.
Fully protected.
A few years back a local radio station has some coppers on anon. Question to each was: ~ “How many of fellow officers should not even be allowed on force?”
Answer was about 10%.
Not ones who cannot do the job. Ones that should not have even gotten past the inbox of HR. But, either because of hiring quotas or bigotry on part of HR they got onto the force.