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Kim is meant to be a likeable character but he's definitely not praise of the police. He's written to be at least complicit in the various crimes of the police.
But not really past the point of what you get from a lot of copaganda.
Sure. I personally read him as intended to convey that even the "good cops" are bastards. I'm personally of the philosophy that things don't need to be handed to the player/reader/etc on a plate—depending on the degree to which you agree, one might think that Kim should've been more clearly/explicitly a bastard, but like, imo the game is from a cop's pov and from the pov of a character who has a good relationship with Kim, and what the game does with writing him as a bastard whilst still being personally likeable from the pov of the protagonist is well-done.
Disco Elysium's writing is not subtle.