Let us relax on the mean words.
Cops, Leo's, firemen, military, etc. are not gods. They are Employees. They do as they are told or the paycheck to feed their families, drive their cars, buy insurance, raise their kids stops.
If doing so requires that they work with animals, and thugs that is what they have to do.
The best they can do is to show a little bit of leniency when they can and raise the new recruits to do what is right as often as they can.
There is no Cops, Leo's, firemen, military, etc. There are only skin and bone men trying to do right in the belly of the unliving corporate city, State, Federal monster.