Originally Posted by
Volband
Police (or military) by nature attract people who can turn out to be this. Being a policeman is a shitty job with a shitty pay but the government obviously needs them. They have no incentive to purge their policemen because if they were to send away 1/3 of their units and pay who knows how much for having a therapy session in every X weeks for all of them, they would just find themselves facing a different problem.
As for leaving, I don't know how much better off you would be. Everyone thinks their country is one of the most corrupt shithole ever, but really, how many places are there where you wouldn't find some mindless orcs as policemen? If you ever find a country where all policemen have phd, then that country is already in anarchy, because a few dozen smart man will never be able to do the tasks which require much higher manpower. It's also not like in Britain you have news like this every single week, it's "just" an outlier which is the top of the iceberg. Most bad seed policemen are "just" lazy, corrupt or power-hungry, but not actual rapists and murderers. The US being an exception because of their gun culture.