It is not 99% that are nice guys. In those professions.....Honor, Integrity and Character means everything. It is pure power. Power to destroy another human being. And there have been many screwed over. Many screwed over who have not had justice and never will on those who did it. But if you say 99% are as clean as the driven snow, it is completely messed because when one of their own does bad they circle the wagons to protect him. To protect what I call a fiefdom. And their Honor, Integrity and Character is based on that. Which reduces the same from if they were individuals. Anyone walking down the street and having several cop cars surrounding them with dogs and weapons drawn knows what tyranny is. Or perhaps incompetence and ineptitude. Imagine that at least a few times and being stopped a dozen times and the person did nothing wrong. And that is just one encounter with those who are aid to protect but shove the yokel of tyranny out instead. There are people in their lives who have put their life on the line and received this treatment. BLM brought it to a head and whacked some of them. They got a taste of what they do to others. And es there are good officers. You have to catch them at their best if they are by themselves to be fair. And many are. With standards lowered and many more women on the forces it is worse. More people employed at a much higher cost with many never putting their lives on the line. Leaving those who do with more pressure on them. And they still protect the fiefdom. The pay, the benefits, the pensions...Dark humor ... is a common coping mechanism for most first responders.
That being said, there are nearly a million sworn LEOs in America. How many have posted to these things on FaceBook?
Again, 99% are great guys..
The problem is the 1% who aren't... and how difficult it is to fire them.