While there have been cases of misconduct on the part of the police, it is important not to exaggerate matters. A lot of cops are doing good work and of course that never makes the news - only the worst excesses do.
Cops doing good (or "good", in the case of shit that's still pretty abusive, but liked by many people, like erasing the presence of homeless folks) makes the news bloody constantly, on top of being standard fair for cop themed media, which is very much prevalent. If you don't notice it, either things are wildly different where you're at (
extreme doubt, as I've seen that shit in person or reading local sources from literally one coast to the other in this country), or they're the default to such a degree it doesn't even register as notable.
Meanwhile, while
some of the
worst excesses make the news, lots and lots of the lesser abuses -- the harassment, the profiling, the evidence planting, theft, and so on and on and on -- only rarely does and even when it
does, often receives little remark and less accountability or reform.
Cops get plenty of good PR. Way more than they fucking deserve, especially given how much of their "good" work immiserates the community it's inflicted on. It's just reaching the point they're collectively a pile of shit so huge even decades of media and news carrying water for them left, right, and center is starting to wear
thin.