There are still far too many people who defend any action by any cop for any reason under any circumstance.

There are too many people who think "YEAH BUT WHO YOU GONNA CALL WHEN SOMEONE BREAKS INTO YOUR HOUSE AT NIGHT?" is a full on death ray to any criticism cops might receive.

That "thin blue line" is more like a mile thick wall of steel. A cop molested a four year old. He recently went to trial and he had support out the ass from cops and cop wives and union reps and even the fucking court. They all said that molesting toddlers wasn't a part of his usual character and BY GOD, he's a stand up guy otherwise and even won trooper of the year. TWICE, in fact! The stress of his job caused him to molest a four year old, you know?

So the fucking pig gets 4 years instead of the 30 he was initially looking at and might even get out earlier than that. Apparently, his family being embarrassed, his reputation being tarnished, and him being virtually unemployable after this was enough of a punishment.

Yeah, so long as people like that guy and all his friends, family, and the people in that court still exist, there's no fucking cleaning this up.