I suspect the number of cops per capita also matters a lot. The U.S. seems to have very few by the standards of western countries, especially European ones, eve

I suspect the number of cops per capita also matters a lot. The U.S. seems to have very few by the standards of western countries, especially European ones, even though we have a more violent society. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/police-officers-per-1000-people https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/police-officers-per-1000-... There are a lot of reforms that would have to be carried out to U.S. departments to essentially keep from just turning new recruits into more bad apples, but some of the problem may be that from the cops' point of view they just don't have time to deal with any crap. It might be weird to suggest that part of the problem with bad cops is not enough cops, and it's definitely not an excuse, but I bet it's a reason.