[amexsbow]

Police misconduct is no greater than any other profession (except lawyers and politicians). The police ranks are made up of people from the general population of a particular area. The number of "bad actors" is a reflection of the same number of miscreants in the general population. This is the same in all other professions. Doctors, lawyers and other professions discipline their own. Only the police are called to a different standard with demands to be disciplined by civilians. As a retired Internal Affairs Commander I can tell you there were many cases where officers were fired only to be reinstated by a civilian review board. So even that solution has its problems.
As far as the amateur videos of police misconduct, you only see a portion of what happened, often edited, and biased by the person taking the video.
I can say without equivocation that if the police do not have the support of their leaders and politicians while doing their job, they will become "radio cops" responding to calls, not doing proactive policing and basically slowing down. C.Y.A. who in their right mind would do anything which could jeopardize their life, job, home and well being to be castigated by society for doing their job. If the average american does not wake up what happened to Portland, Seattle and New York City is coming to a city where you live. Think about living in a city where the police are immobilized by the politicians who run the city. Talk to people who live in those areas where the criminal and leftist thugs have taken over.
Antifa, BLM and other extremist groups are laying the groundwork for the destruction of our democracy.
Read and listen to what they say to their followers, not what they pander to the media.
If we as a nation do not wake up our grandchildren and great grandchildren will live in a society much like the other socialist societies around the world.