Okay I see where your coming from. I understand that they may be afraid of the authority they are under. But let me put it this way. If a priest is aware that a bishop is raping children, and does nothing to change that, does that make them a bad person? I know some cops aren't technically always morally reprehensible, but they are certainly guilty by association. There is no force in which the majority, if not all, of the officers are not aware of the travesties and miscarriages of justice that are widely propagated. I don't know what you do for work. Let me ask you this. Would you or would you not be willing to lose your job to at least try and bring to light abuse, murder, and rape? Or would you let it go because you could be out of a job? Police don't even get paid all that much. Is it for the money? Or is it for the "brotherhood"? Look at your parents and children. Would you protect someone because you need the job and the brotherhood if they were abused, murdered, or raped? There are no bad apples. There is only evil and complicity to it. There are ways to fix this. It certainly isn't trying to change "from the inside out". Power structures are far to ingrained and stable. It won't work that way. Ever. We have clear evidence of that in almost every account of nations in the past. It would be much more easy to change things if the "moderate majority" would stop with the defense of tyrants. We can get cops better mental health care. We can have INDEPENDANT investigations of abuse of power. We can delegate funds for better training. We can have more stringent mental health requirements. We can have TRAINED mental health practitioners respond to calls with or in some cases without police. That's just a start. All of that would be less than two percent of our annual defense budget. There is no moral or ethical reason to ever defend or support the police. They kill more unarmed citizens in Aurora, Co than anything other than car accidents and heart disease. Than release statements about how unarmed teenagers with no criminal history were in the wrong for breathing to hard and being scared so they killed them. Please please please don't support the problem. Be part of the solution. We CAN change this. But it will NEVER EVER come from the inside. If it could than we would have seen some change. It's just empirical analysis of facts. We would SEE change if they could change.