Exactly; it leads me to wonder just what skeletons are in their closets, too.
This, or the good cops, or just-not-as-dirty cops know other psychopath/sociopath cops will arrange their demise, throw a bag of coke and money in your car and call IA, or just kill you, and blame it on some random thug. True some of the "thin blue line" is a somewhat positive "
We gotta stick together because of the dangers and demands of our job the others don't just understand!", the flipside is just the gang-like behavior that can emerge in any group or subculture.
And yes, 99% of cops are good cops or whatever, but when the city PD is (Such as my city of Milwaukee) is roughly 1300 sworn/armed officers at any given time... A 1% bad-apple rate means
there's 13 other psychopath/sociopaths who are armed, have police training, equipment, and access to information, an understanding of evidence and legal proceedings, and who benefit from operating under color of law at any given time. I wouldn't be a very popular mayor or chief, but some sort of tamper-proof video recording system in cars and on-body would be required if I ever ran a department.