Even the metaphor used is wrong. A few bad apples in a barrel will make the whole thing rot. A cop that covers for another is equally rotten so I simply do not

Even the metaphor used is wrong. A few bad apples in a barrel will make the whole thing rot. A cop that covers for another is equally rotten so I simply do not believe there are any non-rotten cops. They might not commit the torture, rape, and murder of unarmed people themselves, but they'll do anything to defend those cops that do. That's somehow ethical in the mind of many and thus they applied the phrase "a few bad apples" about as well as they apply their ethical principles: terribly. So "a few bad apples it is": aka all police are rotten scum. Their logic, not mine.