[dreamweapon]

For every one of these examples I can point to a hundred cases where some officer put their life on the line to do their job and help do their part to make NYC a decent place to live.

You're changing the subject. The point is, everyone who has lived here for a significant amount of time (and who doesn't have their head in the sand) knows, from direct experience, how profoundly dysfunctional (and disturbingly corrupt) the NYPD is, from the top down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft

[bane]

No you're right, the NYPD definitely has its share of problems. Like any police force it needs to be monitored and held accountable. I think both of those functions have not been sufficiently used on the force.

I disagree that they're a dysfunctional and corrupt organization from the top-down. They aren't free from blame, but they aren't some mob of uniformed gangsters either.

[dreamweapon]

The basic issue is for years, the NYPD has aggressively fended off most efforts to make it more accountable and transparent (it's generally known that its "Internal Affairs" department is something of a joke, for example).

That may place it much further along the spectrum towards a "mob-like" organization than you would be comfortable admitting.