I have way too many family members who are good cops that follow their duty to enforce the law & to protect all citizens, that have saved far more lives and cleaned up far more fucked up shit than any of us even think about, so a big fat NOPE to that, dude.

The problem cops are not the boots on the ground so much as the ones in authority (especially in deep blue areas) who've been installed by political cronies to uphold their own agendas and to keep the boots' hands tied while holding all sorts of metaphorical guns to their backs.

Take it from a Chicagoan: They all start off in the city trying to be the good guys and bring real change before they realize the system is way too messed up, the corruption way too embedded, and the people they are trying to serve are way too hostile and conditioned to always hate them for any of the boots to turn things around without a massive amount of support that they will never get. The city beats them mentally & physically to the ground, and after years of this, they flee to the outer suburbs or retire to a different public service field (EMT, firefighter, etc.) as soon as they are able. In some cases, the ones that try to stay for for goodness' sake anyway are ganged up on and politically or otherwise ousted. So the only ones left to take on that absolute dumpster fire of a never-ending situation are the young, naive or inexperienced cops, the hardened, beaten down cops stuck in perpetual sympathetic fight mode, and the few-but-slimy pigs who were there for the power and authority all along.

In places like Chicago, the vast majority of cops have unwillingly become guinea pigs of a political war on domestic soil, and the situation is so stressful, it really is akin to a tour in Iraq, complete with all the same political corruption. It is quickly becoming the norm for cops serve a "tour" and be ordered to move on elsewhere as opposed to a serving a life-long career as a cop in the same community and building a relationship with it, because staying any longer than the minimum to get their pension would obliterate their mental & physical health completely if not already so.

I have way too many family members who are good cops that follow their duty to enforce the law & to protect all citizens, that have saved far more lives and cleaned up far more fucked up shit than any of us even think about, so a big fat NOPE to that, dude.

The problem cops are not the boots on the ground so much as the ones in authority (especially in deep blue areas) who've been installed by political cronies to uphold their own agendas and to keep the boots' hands tied while holding all sorts of metaphorical guns to their backs.

Take it from a Chicagoan: They all start off in the city trying to be the good guys and bring real change before they realize the system is way too messed up, the corruption way too embedded, and the people they are trying to serve are way too hostile and conditioned to always hate them for any of the boots to turn things around without a massive amount of support that they will never get. The city beats them mentally & physically to the ground, and after years of this, they flee to the outer suburbs or retire to a different public service field (EMT, firefighter, etc.) soon as they are able. In some cases, the ones that try to stay for for goodness' sake anyway are ganged up on and politically or otherwise ousted. So the only ones left to take on that absolute dumpster fire of a never-ending situation are the young, naive or inexperienced cops, the hardened, beaten down cops stuck in perpetual sympathetic fight mode, and the few-but-slimy pigs who were there for the power and authority all along.

In places like Chicago, the vast majority of cops have unwillingly become guinea pigs of a political war on domestic soil, and the situation is so stressful, it really is akin to a tour in Iraq, complete with all the same political corruption. It is quickly becoming the norm for cops serve a "tour" and be ordered to move on elsewhere as opposed to a serving a life-long career as a cop in the same community and building a relationship with it, because staying any longer than the minimum to get their pension would obliterate their mental & physical health completely if not already so.