While true, this is exceedingly unlikely to happen. In rural counties they aren’t going to deputize some outsider who shows up wanting to be in law enforcement. Even if you had prior experience as an MP or something, they still would be suspicious of an outsider.
Hell, my local rural sheriff is still known for taking kids who break the law out to a cornfield and beating the snot out of them instead of arresting them.
I doubt those kids care much whether the untrained deputy beating them is from around there or not
Thats a ridiculously long list (1913 agencies). Just checked relative sizes, and it turns out England and Wales have almost exactly twice as many people as Texas but Texas has almost twice the total area
Just think, you can fuck up 100 times as a Texas cop and still have 1800 other employment options
Rural police departments regularly hire on cops who’ve been fired for cause in neighboring jurisdictions.
Somehow I suspect if you show the right kind of fuck-them-n$$$$$s (or mexicans, or american indians) attitude, they’d figure out how to get you on the force.
Well, you know, police are supposed to do what it takes to be tough on criminals and potential criminals, and not worry much about things like political correctness and civil liberties that mostly just get in the way of doing their job. That’s my understanding, anyway, not even from anything anti-police but just from the countless copaganda shows out there, the way people want them to be seen.
I think the only police show I’ve seen that seriously considers the possibility police may not always be in the right is Brooklyn Nine-Nine, which is of course a sit com. 
AFAIK The Shield was supposed to be about bad cops doing bad things, but I haven’t seen it myself
Yes. That’s different from your original goalpost, which was
When you wrote “Become a cop” I took it to mean, “with no prior experience.” If you meant, “become a cop, with prior experience including being corrupt,” sure.
But with no experience I doubt any rural force is going to hire you.
My dude…you implied that the cops are the scions of “academic liberals” when it’s quite clear that most cops are way right, to where “we have to do sweeps to keep the ACTIVE KKK/ Nazis out” is an actual “thing”
It was disturbing. Not only to see the corruption and terrible tactics, but also watching the ways that the main character tried to justify his actions. The amount of effort put into trying and failing to keep his worlds from colliding seemed like an exercise in futility. In the end, very few of the dirty cops escaped the consequences of their actions.
So, you’re saying this show was fantasy then?
But seriously, I thought that Better Call Saul also did a good job of exploring corruption in policing with Mike Ehrmantraut’s storyline… You like the character even though, but they make it pretty clear he was involved in some corruption back east and that his son was killed specifically for trying to root out corruption on the force, which led Mike to killing the other cops who killed him and that was why he followed his DIL to ABQ. And of course, he ends up getting pulled into all sorts of criminal activity during the show as well, which sets him up for the role he played in Breaking Bad.
Oh, not legal consequences. It was more of the bad karma and chickens coming home to roost type. Making deals that went sideways, not getting all of the ill-gotten gains expected, losing the respect or loyalty of family/colleagues when some of their methods were exposed, and not having any good options in the end.
Guys on a power trip, believing they could play both sides against criminals and the justice system, only to have factors beyond their control mess up their plans seemed plausible. Cover-ups and conspiracies require a lot of work and maintenance for long-term success.
Those kind of consequences… Better than nothing…
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