Reckon that this thread is soliciting the intended responses and following the same script that all these other threads seem to follow. Just like much of our society- a vocal group on one side pointing out police abuse and atrocities and the another vocal group "backing the blue". Also- mirroring much of our society, the quiet minority lying in the middle whispering for facts on the subject before offering an opinion one way or the other.
I consider myself strangely in the middle of the whole police debate and as much as I'd like to think it's due to my fantastic personality, it's likely more so due to having personal experience on the different extremes. One one hand and I don't think it's all that controversial, the police have a shit job and the marketed 'nobility' of the profession is short lived with anyone that spent any time in the profession. It's a job like any other after all (although glamorized for at least a century in movies & literature) but they attract new employees much like the military does. Promise a career based off of the ideals of the profession, emphasize the 'service' & 'nobility' portions, but then treat them like your run of the mill government employee (aka just another number/cog in the proverbial wheel) after they "sign up". Especially early in their career they're given all the shit assignments, awful shifts/schedules, and treated by the more seasoned employees as idiots until they themselves have enough seniority to act in the same manner towards new hires that come after them.
Meanwhile they're constantly hearing about how corrupt they are, are always being scrutinized, and as a result are forced to operate under otherwise inane mandates based off of public perception & "feelings" rather than doing the job they were hired & trained to do. Also throw in countless examples of watching people you rightfully arrested (real criminals and often of the worst kind) get off time and time again due to technicalities &/or the fact they have enough money to scare the DA in either initially pursuing the charges in court and/or watch the "worst of the worst" continue to skirt charges when you feel you have them 'dead to rights' because they simply can hire a better lawyer than the municipality can afford to recruit on the prosecutions side. Who can blame anyone that works through this type of "grind" to not become jaded?
The "other" side of the proverbial coin though is the judicial system in modern times exists to generate revenue and needs to sustain its own existence through the fees it collects. If I can go out on a limb, but I can't help but find parallels between this and how the Commissary & Exchanges used to be run. Decades ago- the exchanges were an actual deal and offered products well below what they were selling for outside that system as 'present market value'. But then "we" had the great idea/perception that this created an unfair advantage of sorts and caused an undue burden on the taxpayers. The logical solution of course was to take what was originally started as a government service and try to turn it into a self-sustaining business model (which the government is well known for their aptness in running). And our 'best ideas' turn it into an entinity that's now a drain on taxpayers, no longer offers the services that they were originally chartered for, and because they can't compete in pricing (but hey it's tax free am I right), their entire existence & the service they're supposed to provide is at risk because people took their business outside of the commissaries & exchanges because the lack of competitiveness. We just live to exist long enough to shoot ourselves in the foot, lose sight of what the mission is, and blame somebody else for these self inflicted problems.
But it's disingenuous to state that double standards and abject corruption doesn't exist in our legal system (which I'd argue is built off of a self licking ice cream cone of blatant conflicts of interest). I totally get that the job is shit both in ideal and practical senses and I also get why folks get jaded and how this 'devil may care' attitude infiltrates the profession especially given their hourly compensation. But the 'checks & balances' that should be in place have become so eroded over the decades that we publicly now accept this "new normal" as acceptable governance and how a justice system "should" operate.
I personally challenge that mindset but this post is getting long so I'd best end it here and break it up into more than one post.
while our Kuvacz would have ripped the tires off the vehicle, then the doors before getting the chewy treats inside 
