A friend of mine ran white water rafting camps to bring troubled city kids and the city police together. He told me once that it were always the police officer

A friend of mine ran white water rafting camps to bring troubled city kids and the city police together. He told me once that it were always the police officers who caused trouble. Not listening to instructions, not cooperating with anybody, wanting to control everything, quick with physical confrontation. He got disheartened after a while. He even mentioned cops that he knew from when they joined the force. He said the cops started out with ideals and simply get corrupted by the system until they are - quote - "just like the rest of them". There are good cops out there for sure; probably the majority. Maybe serving in the city is too much to take and police officers become cynical? In my encounters with the police (thankfully very few) I have never met a nice or even reasonable cop - but again my sample set is very small.