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David Simon's recent interviews on what happened to the state of policing in Baltimore (and most likely in many other cities) should be required reading.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-an guish
The argument is that it is not about good cops or bad cops. Changing the very nature of policing from requiring probable cause for an arrest to simply declaring large sections of cities drug indicted areas where anyone can be arrested for any reason is responsible. Politicians need unrealistic crime stats to get re-elected. This leads to new police standards and rules which turn police work from information gathering to acting like an occupying force. Leads to a complete break with the community they are policing and creates bad incentives. So it is impossible to find the good cops, because all of them are being required and regulated to simply chase stats instead of building cases.