>>...yes but in all fairness, some of the cops are indeed really good, a some of the positions do require a college degree. But I don't think it's just a 'few bad apples' that are the problem, I think the norm now is not good.
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>I think that most cops do mean well, but I think there is a built-in attitude now that leads far too many astray. This former Baltimore cop tweeted about it in the wake of Freddie Gray:
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>http://www.citypaper.com/blogs/the-news-hole/bcpnews-former-bpd-officer-reveals-instances-of-misconduct-corruption-on-twitter-20150624-htmlstory.html
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>Tamar

It's a systemic problem .. start out meaning well, but too often that changes over time. I would think that with all the bad press lately that it would be difficult to recruit new officers right now too. Perhaps that's one of the reasons that when one gets fired they just get a job at another department if they dont end up with their job back anyway.