Quoted from skink91:

Everything is always an emergency with government and law enforcement.
What always cracks me up is conservatives that have somehow bought this narrative of any kind of government (e.g police) are somehow always the good guys and you should trust everything they do or ask of them. Why conservatives and not liberals? Because as conservatives, we ‘should’ already understand this private citizen-to-governance relationship in proper terms, so when you don’t its just sad.
And you always seem to say “privacy is not a big deal if you have nothing to hide” too… wake up man. Seriously.

Quoted from PinMonk:

Well, the fact that NO ONE KNOWS pretty much means NO ONE KNOWS. I can't lose credibility when you can't point to a detailed study spelling it out. It's not been studied rigorously at even the county level nationwide, let alone all the cities in the USA, and police unions would fight tooth an nail to make sure it stays that way. We only know what little we know because of reporters following these "bad cops" as they pull up stakes and be bad somewhere else with no authority there to make sure that doesn't happen.

Quoted from PinMonk:

You have this wrong. Police "screw up" a LOT, but relatively few cases become national news. We had a ton of ridiculous police stuff happen around here, like raping prisoners on the way to the jail and shooting little dogs for no reason (no threat) that never became national news, but were still "screw ups" that are unfortunately pretty common. Police accountability in the form of a licensing board and actual training regimen so they're like doctors is really needed. Lose your police license, you can't just move to another city and start screwing up again, you're out of the police game. There's a core of bad actors that keep screwing up that make the general police pool look incredibly bad. But no one knows how big that core is. 20%? 30%? 50%? No one knows.

Quoted from PinMonk:

You have this wrong. Police "screw up" a LOT, but relatively few cases become national news. We had a ton of ridiculous police stuff happen around here, like raping prisoners on the way to the jail and shooting little dogs for no reason (no threat) that never became national news, but were still "screw ups" that are unfortunately pretty common. Police accountability in the form of a licensing board and actual training regimen so they're like doctors is really needed. Lose your police license, you can't just move to another city and start screwing up again, you're out of the police game. There's a core of bad actors that keep screwing up that make the general police pool look incredibly bad. But no one knows how big that core is. 20%? 30%? 50%? No one knows.