Armando ⏸️ di Matteo (parody)

People often object to these sorts of anecdotes as exceptions. Obviously in a country of millions of people, even very rare things will happen more than 0 times, and the media will pick up on these rare cases and spread them all over the news. This is a good thing to keep in mind in general, but seems almost certainly false when it comes to police misconduct. The clue is to look at what happens to the officers afterwards. If it were just "a few bad eggs" in an otherwise almost entirely well-meaning police force, we'd still see stories like this in the media, but the officers involved would usually be fired shortly afterwards, as the rest of their department would be horrified. Instead, the officers in question consistently get off with only minor disciplinary action, or none at all. This proves it's a systemic issue, not just survivorship bias. And note that this is the case *even when the misconduct is widely reported and causes terrible PR for the department*. We should therefore expect the police to care *even less* about misconduct that does not get picked up by the media.