it seems, to me, a rule of the universe:
no accountability means no restraint

no restraint tends to bring out
the worst
in people

give a former school bully (or, more likely, a bullied child)
a gun and tell them, as law enforcement,
they don’t have to follow the law

they can have dark tinted windows
they can speed and run stop signs and red lights
they don’t have to use turn signals
they can change lanes however they want
they can have expired tags

let them get away with the “little things”–

that’s how it starts

give a low-IQ thug with a fragile ego an ugly militaristic costume
a badge and a mandate: 
generate revenue and
jam good people up for victimless
“crimes”

when they hurt people,
make sure to excuse them
make sure the police union
and corrupt prosecutors 
protect them from
any 
accountability

what happens to a person like that, over time

they become, increasingly,
ego-driven violent sadists
who are such
cowards
they will murder an unarmed person

not just kill–
murder

they delight in inflicting pain and suffering

such a person should turn in their humanity card,
their badge, their gun
–every fucking one of them–
they either are the bad cop
or they enable them, 
which is, in a way, even more
heinous

demons,
that’s what they are–
real-life
monsters

with qualified immunity