First, thank you for your service. Second, this thread is full of cop haters because 5% of cops are bad. Third, for some reason they won't listen to reason or the facts. Forth, I don't think they will ever change.
Do you really think 5% is bad? I think the number is way, way, way lower than that. Officers are human and there are some bad apples just as you would find in any profession. As far as I know we have only had one cop that went bad in the 30+ years I have lived here. When it happened the city called in the state to investigate so there couldn't be any favoritism on their end. When the state gave the city the facts, the city filed charges and the case went to the state for prosecution.