If police are assholes in your area there's probably a good chance it's because the local political elites want them to be assholes.
Not that any individual policeman is sadistic by default, but the likelihood is higher than a random sample of people.
Domestic violence stats among police is significantly higher than the general public, for example. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...
And in this case, the law. If the locals don’t like this, they should carve exceptions into their law.
Not pass “a City Council resolution encouraging the mayor to consider relaxing crackdowns” and a CDC encouragement “not to clear homeless camps unless they can move those living there into housing” [1].
[1] https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/police-...
FTFY
It depends on how corrupt the local establishment is. The cops play a tactical role.
For reference, see the original handling of the Jussie Smollett case. Clearly laws were broken, but corrupt higher-ups provided cover.
Of course not.
It only means that your DA is a dirtbag, and your cop is a dirtbag. (It's also likely that the dirtbaggery extends to others in city leadership. The judges, the mayor, some council people. Etc. Just like the dirtbaggery in the police force likely extends to other cops in that department.)
Someone else on this thread already referenced "Superior Orders" which I was thinking about as well.
We as a society already determined in the 50's that doing bad things because a superior officer told me to does not negate responsibility for the actions taken.