&gt; Maybe not all of them, but enough of them that &quot;police are corrupt&quot; is true.<p>Usually I would never generalize the actions of a subset to the entire group, but in this case there is a key difference that justifies &quot;(all&#x2F;most) police are corrupt&quot;: the failure to clean their own house of the &quot;bad apples&quot;. When a supposedly &quot;good&quot; policeman gives cover and protection to a criminal in their department instead of reporting the crime, they become an accomplice. in many cases, protecting the guilty may even be a crime in itself (misprision of felony[1]).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Misprision_of_felony#United_States_federal_law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Misprision_of_felony#United_St...</a>