There's a substantial amount of depictions of police corruption in America that does make it into media, but often times the depiction is so extreme or so jarri

There's a substantial amount of depictions of police corruption in America that does make it into media, but often times the depiction is so extreme or so jarring that people write it off as being substantially fictional rather than substantially real. Take, for example, the TV show "The Shield", which had roots in the LAPD rampart/CRASH scandal. There's plenty in the show that isn't real, but the reality is about as extreme.