"No better, no worse than society in general".  That is the most intelligent comment I have seen in this entire thread.  You are correct.  And about 95% of society are good, decent, hardworking, trustworthy people.  The problem is that the 5% who are not good, decent, trustworthy people and that 5% is spread around all types of careers, jobs, and communities.  Some are cops and those are the ones that ruin it for all the other, good cops.  There are bad doctors, bad trash collectors, bad preachers, bad teachers, and bad construction workers.  Those do not make the news headlines at the same rate that bad cops do.