If your going to say that cops earned mistrust because of some cops behaving badly you how is it different than making the same argument about any particular race, of which consists of some people behaving badly?
When your on the beat, in the hood, and you see a lot of black people doing crime, (a police officer would naturally see a lot of crime) it would be easy to think all blacks are like that...
When you are constantly getting stopped, profiled, fines into prison, it’s easy to think all cops are corrupt.
im not seeing a huge difference there. Both are wrong...
You would expect cops to be held to a higher standard, but they are held to a lesser one... they get the benefit of the doubt....