It's hard to say what the dividing line is, but there are some aspiring cops who figure out the game during training or the first few years, and decide they don't want it for themselves as a career. Those are the good ones, but as a fraction of police departments they're extremely rare by definition.
Being a bastard isn't applying to a job you have maybe gravitated to or been steered to by culture or those close to you.
Being a bastard is when you realize that your job does more harm than good to other people, is an utter cancer on public budgets, has a disturbingly large fraction of people who abuse their power on and off the job... and then choosing to continue on with it, to wrap your identity around it, and to try to defend the institution at the expense of everyone else in the country.
It's hard to say what the dividing line is, but there are some aspiring cops who figure out the game during training or the first few years, and decide they don't want it for themselves as a career. Those are the good ones, but as a fraction of police departments they're extremely rare by definition.
Could just say that some people are good enough to want to stop being bastards.
Being a bastard isn't applying to a job you have maybe gravitated to or been steered to by culture or those close to you.
Being a bastard is when you realize that your job does more harm than good to other people, is an utter cancer on public budgets, has a disturbingly large fraction of people who abuse their power on and off the job... and then choosing to continue on with it, to wrap your identity around it, and to try to defend the institution at the expense of everyone else in the country.
When the protests sprang up, there was a mass exodus of good cops that left.
A lot of them really should have realized sooner, but better late than never.
Good cops quit their job. Good cops quit their job. Good cops quit their job.
Good cops also get fired/death threats/killed for trying to expose corruption.