Unfortunately in a lot of areas (most) police departments attract dim wits. Aside from those that had a calling or come from a family of law enforcement, the profession attracts those with limited other options. Former HS jocks, muscle heads, power trippers, chipped shoulders, those without the grades for higher education, those without drive. It was once a noble profession but it could stand hold itself to higher standards.
In 125 years we went from hanging horse thieves to “sorry this illegal alien r4ped and killed your daughter, but his IQ is too low to stand trial or know right from wrong.”
When I was a child, my grandfather would sometimes solemnly intone at the dinner table: "The purpose of socialism is to organize scarcity."
As a kid it sort-of didn't register in my brain as meaning anything beyond "socialism bad", but eventually when I was 12 or something, I did ask what he meant by those specific words.
And he said: socialists establish control of valuable resources and then create an artificial scarcity of these resources, so that they can then use them as a tool of control by deciding who gets and doesn't get those resources.
And I thought that was wrong. I mean, are socialists misguided? Sure. But to claim that they deliberately create scarcity as a means of political control? That seemed far-fetched.
But, of course, he was entirely correct.