Agreed. I think that's the common ground between marcusbooster's sentiment and michael_nielsen's experience with individual officers. To expound just a little,

Agreed. I think that's the common ground between marcusbooster's sentiment and michael_nielsen's experience with individual officers. To expound just a little, I think it's likely that there both exist police departments where careerists do well, and others where responsible officers do. I think we can also all agree that we ought to encourage a legal structure where officers can't advance their careers by falsifying evidence/extracting confessions from innocents/etc.