I think the whole “bad apples” angle is not just hackneyed and redundant but misleading.
The real problem is not some small number of misbehaving cops, those ‘bad apples’ but rather the culture of silence and wrist-slapping faux-punishment that creates and promotes an environment that some assholes take advantage of.
The established internal culture implicitly condones and promotes consequence-free, psychopathic behaviour and a lot of them carry guns.
