<i>Second I think some of the police hate is just availability bias. If you read nothing but articles on the Internet about police somewhere doing something bad, of course you will think they are all terrible.</i><p>No, we think they&#x27;re all terrible when we hear about one officer doing something bad, and an entire precinct closing ranks around him&#x2F;her to cover it up.  (Which accompanies the vast majority of instances of police misconduct.)