I don't think those people are bad cops per se. History has shown that speaking out, especially against the cops, can really fuck up your life. To me its more like a good chunk of cops are bad, and the rest of them are just trying to get home to their families without stirring the pot. The cycle only gets worse, because the cops that want to speak out are pushed out of their jobs through retaliation, leaving only the corrupt and the meek.
You can argue that police officers who stay silent are not bad
people. But a police officer that stays silent while the law is being broken is not upholding the law and is allowing harm to come to those they are sworn to protect. This makes them bad cops, by definition. Their failings as a human, their personal life situations, all that jazz...it just explains
why they're a bad cop. It doesn't excuse them, and frankly it's irrelevant.
Out of curiosity, when Trump or his followers claim "all Mexicans are rapists or drug dealers", you think they actually refer to "all" Mexicans or would you call such an assessment hyperbolic as well?
This isn't a topic about Trump's racist remarks, and if it was you'd probably be doing poorly in that discussion as well.
Again:
Cops who break the law are bad cops and criminals.
Cops who protect or ignore criminals are also bad cops.
The vast majority cops fall under one of these categories. I think it's an easily defensible stance to have, especially given how silent police forces are whenever there are incidents of misconduct. That belief is the foundation for my presence in this thread and you've yet to actually address your issue with that specific opinion.
Your reliance on pedantry and semantics as if anyone in this topic gives a damn about whether or not 92.435% or 100% of police officers are rotten just solidifies my disdain and unapologetic hostility for people like you who try to defend American police in the face of overwhelming evidence of their corruption.