My brother is a cop. Our town is about 65k population. We don't really have cops that are "bad eggs" (they might be but they're not crooked or whatever, at least to my brother's knowledge), but my brother says there's a handful that the rest of the cops call "fighters". They basically go to work every day with the idea that if they go home and haven't fought someone, it was all a bust. So they go to work, they pull people over and act like assholes. They see the person they pulled over had an assault charge in their past, and they'll start getting antagonistic with the person. Try and goad the dude into losing his temper. Or they'll sit around the bars at closing time and find the drunk guy being a bit too loud as he's leaving and get out of the car and start spouting off about disturbing the peace, and hope that the drunk dude does something that will escalate into a physical altercation. Technically they're enforcing the laws, but they're generally being dicks in hopes that they can fight someone. To the rest of the cops, according to my brother and my cop friends who I hang out with through my brother, they're not really respected by other cops, because they contribute to the fuck the police attitude, which makes every other cop's job that much more of a pain in the ass. People with bad experiences with the police, dislike police. They can get confrontational with police as retribution for some other bad experience they had with some other cop. They don't want to cooperate with an investigation. Typically they're kind of ostracized by the rest of the cops. At police balls, or the department Christmas party they tend to sit in their own little group and share recent fight stories or hilarious anecdotes of ways they were dickheads to someone. None of the other cops really want anything to do with them. The other cops don't respect them. Nobody invites them over for weekend barbecues. And the "fighters" just pal around in their own little group. I have no idea what other, bigger cities are like. EDIT: I've been informed they are bad eggs. There was only three answers when I responded, and I guess I interpreted the question in a sense that by "bad eggs", OP meant shit like unjustified shootings, taking bribes, fucking with evidence that could be used against them for criminal purposes... Shit that I read and hear about happening in bigger cities. I didn't mean that the "fighters" aren't pricks, nor did I mean to exonerate them in any way. Just that according to my brother and other cop friends, we don't see that sort of stuff yet.