On: California’s Criminal Cops

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This is only tangentially related, but This American Life did an episode about a month ago about how difficult it is to reform an institution. Specifically it was about fire fighters in Amsterdam:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/burn-it-down/prologue-a...

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/transcript

This was just one department in one city, and it was mostly just bad behavior ("macho, frat house culture"), nothing criminal. The effort failed.