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It's also that cops have put an amount of investment into pr that is unique among government employees (and that includes pushing you to not think of them as just more government employees) except maybe the military. They're bleeding your local budget dry, but if the news reports on stuff like that or their misconduct they lose access to crime leads. There's a massive push to make you think highly of them. Here's a video I recently watched on the topic that points to true crime as a possible in to get ordinary people to see the cops as as flawed as they are
Very interesting. I assumed that police always held privileged status in US but this could be simply because they are always portrayed like that in movies, even historical ones. The PR is definitely there. In pretty much every movie caps break the laws and ignore rights of everyone and it's shown as something necessary and even 'cool'. Bad guys don't deserve rights...
This is one of the reasons I refused to watch "24". I wasn't going to support a show whose entire premise was "we ignore due process because we're too incompetent to stop the criminals sooner."