I'm going to be blunt. While the issues is the entire legal, welfare and health system there is one glaring thing for law enforcement. US has the lowest training period for police officer among first world countries. Depending on state training can be between 3 weeks to 6 months. Every where else it's usually 3 years at a bachelor level. Thus leaving the overall police force under-prepared for their duty, and more vunerable to bad environmnet.

Other factors are that cops have quotas, ie they have to write a certain amount of tickets per month. And the worst part, imo is that prisons are privatised. Privatising anything that has to do with people, such as healthcare, nursing homes, education, prisons, foster care, etc. is going to make that service terrible. When it’s about profit, it definitely won’t be about people. Cops have to keep those prisons full or the shareholders won’t get their bag. Another reason some groups lobby so hard to keep low impact crimes like possession of marijuana as a criminal offence, they need those bodies in their prisons. It’s pretty disgusting.

The issue is that we have privatized our prison systems so prisoners are no longer criminals they're resources. And with any corporation their sole purpose is to make money. To that end most private prisons have contracts with the states that they are in that guarantees a minimum population in those prisons or the state has to pay fines to the prison owners. Because of this our police officers are encouraged to arrest as many people as possible because it doesn't matter if whatever case is against them is dismissed, they still count towards that population minimum. Along side this is the fact that our justice system is essentially run as a corporation as well with the main source of income being tickets, fines, and court costs, so they're trained to do everything they can to make a profit off of civilians. They don't want them to have emotional self-control because they want officers to throw tantrums and arrest people for nothing because even if they're innocent of any wrong doing the person is still going to have to pay a lot of money to get everything cleared up.

Damn, that’s terrifying. Workplace drama shouldn’t go that far.

Yeah this is typically a good one. You hear a lot of stories and get a better perspective. Unfortunately this shows just how bad corruption in police is but it’s better to be realistic imo

It’s good to get input from those who live it daily.

Agreed. Most civilians have no idea what being a cop is like, or even what the job requires people to do. Even worse, most of them seem to think that we'd be better off without cops. Despite Somalia existing... There's plenty of examples of states that cannot enforce their laws. All of them are hellholes. Not living in anarchy is worth some corruption.