I think by now everyone is aware that law enforcement officers, just like any other grouping of people, can be highly dangerous. We only get in trouble when we

I think by now everyone is aware that law enforcement officers, just like any other grouping of people, can be highly dangerous. We only get in trouble when we let these groups operate in a brazen fashion. Communities that don't wield proper oversight of their law enforcement personnel develop these kinds of issues. To ensure we contain the inevitable fallout evoked by abuses in these communities it, from time to time, becomes necessary for the larger society to "bring the hammer" so to speak when it comes to fixing these law enforcement agencies. Unfortunate, because it brings down some officers who could have been potentially good along with the problem officers who were naturally bad from the outset. The job will attract these natural born bad actors. There's little we can do to change that fact. We can only control how aggressively we fight against them. So articles outlining the existence of police officers who are criminals should be expected. Their existence is a simple fact. How we should judge a society is by how aggressively we prosecute the police who are criminals. Some places do little, some places do lots. And sometimes the larger society has to step in and tell the idiot local leaders to step aside or get taken down with their officers. But my sense is that on balance, we're trying a lot harder than we were 20 years ago. And 20 years from now we will be more aggressive about rooting out corruption in law enforcement than we are today. Still, yeah, lotta work.