What is an utterly ridiculous statement is to say that a few bad apples is the cause for the vitriol hate shown towards LOE and the reason there was a call for defunding the police. The dems started the defund the police movement...that is FACT! The media blew the bad apple cases out of proportion and promoted the "Hate the LOE" narrative and the defund the police narrative.
Again, bad police officers should absolutely be held accountable and should be weeded out of any department. But they account for a very very small percentage of the brave men and women who put the uniform on every day to protect people, and even those who hate them. They are hero's! We should be treating them as such. Also, from personal experience, I can guarantee that the people that are hardest on officers who exhibit bad behavior are the vast majority of other officers. They don't and won't put up with it. Sure you can say in the past there have been bad precincts and that some officers were "protected" from their bad behavior, but to extrapolate that into today's policing and LOE agencies is ridiculous and quite ignorant. Yet alone blaming a few bad apples for the defund the police movement.