When you have elected city majors and politicians (crooks) and an elected chief of police (semi crook) it is very easy to swing the chief to the dark side, on the other side you have those that have gone through the ranks to become chiefs and you have a completlly diferent situation.
Start with the people that run the city and then the chief if they are elected, and you normally have the mood of the town police force, the crooks that run the department and good police oficers that have taken the oath to protect and serve to heart, the chief gives the officers an order and it is acted upon.
Do not blame the officers doing what the crooked politicians want them to do, they have been given an order and that has to be acted on, whether they like it or not, that there are crooked cops, yes it is harder to find persons that have integrity and honesty today than it was in the past, a lot of police deparments have had to lower the standards for recruiting, if they got busted for dope or minor infractions when teenagers it is brushed aside, that is why they love to recriut Marines.
Do not blame the officer doing the job blame the politician.
navegator