good cops and bad cops

Didn't Abraham Lincoln say that a house divided against itself cannot stand?  Are you talking about dividing the country into a white zone and a black zone?  Who decides who gets what, and don't we all know who is getting the shitty side of the stick?  What kind of jurisdiction are you talking about, just police?  Are they both going to vote in the same mayoral election or are you going to have a black mayor who will be mayor of only the black people and a white mayor who will be mayor of only the white people?  If I commit a murder in one zone can I flee to the other zone?  What about people who have parents on both sides of the race line?  What problems is this supposed to solve?

Back to the real world, I am still conflicted about the recent demonstrations.  On the one hand who likes looters, and on the other hand who likes rogue cops who kill at will and skate on the charges?  What I have been saying of late is that there are good and bad demonstrators and good and bad cops.  Some demonstrators are just protesting injustice and some are just out to destroy and loot.  Some cops are just doing their job and want to help people out, and others are corrupt and brutal because they can get away with it and suffer no consequences.

There are things written into police contracts like the review board will be loaded with ex-cops so that every review comes out in favor of cops, if a cop beats the charges against him then records of the case are destroyed, if he doesn't beat the charges those records are destroyed in a few years, the cop is immediately told who the complainant is so that person can fear retribution, the accused cop is given like a week before he has to respond to charges so that he has plenty of time to line up witnesses and get his story straight.  I don't know how prevalent these conditions are, but I think they are quite common in big cities.

Cops get away with this shit pretty often and the only recourse the victim has is to sue the cops.  This puts them in more of a neutral zone and they often win these cases and the city had to pay out millions of dollars to settle these cases and that money is not going to schools and services,

And cops in general get a bad name because of the bad cops.  You would think that if you were a good cop, the kind of guy who joined the force to root out the bad guys and help the good guys you would not want these guys on your force, giving you a bad name and making it hard for you to gain the trust of the public See in my more idealistic moments I am thinking that the good cops, who surely are in the majority will eventually oust the bad cops.

But then in a recent election this guy https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/5/8/21252822/chicago-fraternal-order-police-union-new-president-election-catanzara-graham won the election for head of the police union by 54 percent of the vote, so what does that tell you?