The "bad apple" argument doesn't hold water with me. There is a serious problem with LEA's and LEO's, any body who denies it isn't seeing the picture clearly. When you give agencies and people unconstitutional powers that are often unchecked it is going to attract a certain type of person to that job.
E.G. engineers are a-type/anal personalities typically along with accountants. Those type of jobs fit their personalities. Now create a job where someone is allowed to have "power" over someone else and you are going to attract bullies and jerks. Those who picked on others in school and those who were picked on in school etc. Now this is not to say all cops are this but a large amount are. I don't care how much people want to deny it it is true. And the more we allow police and LEA's to get away with their crimes and over look it the more it will attract these people.
Limit their powers constitutionally, along with the amount of taxes they get and drastically reduce their numbers. Overturn ridiculous tyranny supporting cop favorable court rulings. Make more people aware of their rights, properly instruct juries, enforce the SCOTUS rulings we have the right to resist unlawful arrest and make sure police know this so they are damn sure they are correct when stopping a "civilian". Get rid of the militarization, the "people" having more rights as private citizens constitutionally, have the right to have the bigger guns. Fire all cops that lie (this is suppose to happen already, Brady vs. Maryland), why do they get to commit the felonious crime of perjury when you go to court for a misdemeanor? No more SWAT, no more undercover entrapment, no more enforcement of unconstitutional drug laws. Police should be local and not brought in from other areas. I could go on......if you are not at least concerned about the condition of "law enforcement" (even that word bothers me, it is the government using force against it's civilians) than you are not paying attention, apathetic or suffer from 'copafilia'.
Now should I go to prosecutors? Since they often are the top cop in your area? We need to separate their power and alliance with police. There needs to be consequences for frivolous cases brought against the people. They too need to be constitutionally restrained and not invent "noveau" ways of prosecuting. When laws are "vague" the benefit of the doubt needs to go to the "perp". Rudy Giulani, Janet Reno are two famous prosecutors who sent innocent men to jail. How about the fact that Martha Stewart did time for "lying" about a crime she did not commit? Sofa King What!!!!!! They need to adhere to a strict Blackstone law tradition our country was founded on, you need a victim, actus reaus and mens rea to even bring someone to a grand jury. That asinine saying "ignorance is no excuse" is b******t ignorance is an excuse. So many cases they hide exculpatory evidence or use the plea bargain to win cases, because they have almost unlimited funds to prosecute how can we win when even rich folks like Mike Milken can't even fight the power of the state.
They are political beasts who look at conviction rates for reelection, but if you inform yourself you will find that the overwhelming conviction rates are based on plea bargains (high 90's percentage in many cases). So their convictions are not even for the crime they brought the "perp" to court for, and in many cases it is simply akin to Soviet Gulag or Middle age torture "confessions" because of the pressure put upon a person both monetarily and threats of higher convictions. So many people, not guilty, simply confess. Look at Sigfan if his attorney didn't force the prosecutor to look at the evidence (the video prosecutor wanted to exclude) he would have been convicted of something he didn't do. (The police also dragged their feet and didn't follow the judges order concerning his weapon, something they did in Berretta Lady's case too) Like the police there are too many problems with prosecution in this country to address in this post.
Should I move on to judges? (Many who are ex prosecutors) fighting against jury nullification, inventing new ways to read the law, allowing personal feelings to cloud, strict constitutional rulings, (allowing politicians to threaten them to affect their rulings, SCOTUS's dramatic change under FDR) improper jury instructions. Taking a cops word over a "civilians" when the burden of the proof is supposed to be on the state.
Yes there is something seriously wrong with our "justice" system, not just the cops it is from the bottom up. People who want to use demagoguery against those of us who are outspoken against this system are part of the problem. It's like when someone says, 'I think we need reform welfare', saying "Oh you must want women and children to die!'. But cops are the "force" behind these political issues they willingly choose to enforce and partake in these unconstitutional and anti liberty tactics.
There will be a struggle a war of sorts, I think it has already started, people are going to choose sides what side are You on? (not said to anyone specific hence the capitalization of you) I will choose and always choose the side that is closest to individual liberty and freedom.