I'm a polite white guy, so I have generally been treated well by cops. Never got a ticket or was busted when I didn't deserve it, never was physically threatened by cops, never pushed to bribe anyone. I've had cops risk their lives to help me after traffic accidents.
I know it's probably worse if you're someone the cops are more suspicious of.
There are always bad operators, but I think in the US cops are relatively pretty ethical.
Everything's relative, imagine if you had that fucking job, everyone you deal with hates you. Given that, I think they do pretty well. Consider the alternative to having cops, constantly shifting alliances with vigilante groups and no agreed-upon processes of control.
However, if you lived in a place where there's anarchy and raping militias cutting people's arms off with machetes, you'd probably be praying for someone on the ethical level of an American cop to come along.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/worl...leone.html
http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2013/Mar/28...lenge.aspx
I know it's probably worse if you're someone the cops are more suspicious of.
There are always bad operators, but I think in the US cops are relatively pretty ethical.
Everything's relative, imagine if you had that fucking job, everyone you deal with hates you. Given that, I think they do pretty well. Consider the alternative to having cops, constantly shifting alliances with vigilante groups and no agreed-upon processes of control.
However, if you lived in a place where there's anarchy and raping militias cutting people's arms off with machetes, you'd probably be praying for someone on the ethical level of an American cop to come along.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/worl...leone.html
http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2013/Mar/28...lenge.aspx