Police officers are just people. There's always going to be people who abuse theirs power. Petty and malicious bullies revel in it a even. Unfortunately, the n

Police officers are just people. There's always going to be people who abuse theirs power. Petty and malicious bullies revel in it a even. Unfortunately, the nature of the job attracts those people sometimes. I'm not trying to do the police as a career a disservice (which in general is a noble one, IMO), but they shown time and time again that they have plenty of bullies and bad apples (universally, not in any given place, but some places are worse). Edit: some other comments illustrate this better