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As someone who is friends with a handful of cops, plenty of them are ok. The sort of people youd want to help in an emergency. They do have thugs and bullies, not suited to a fair bit of police work, but the police need the numbers, and so assign people like that to units who specialise in crowd control, riot control etc. so it frees up the more level-headed ones to be e.g. 999 responders, desk sergeants, interviewers etc.
"Nobody really likes them, but they do come in handy sometimes" one of my friends said.
Edit: however, this does probably result in the Thug Units basically agreeing with the more moronic protestors, and having a bone to pick with the 'clever-clever leftie' ones.