In fact, there's a whole cottage industry today of YouTube channels that air body-cam footage to expose police misconduct. There's a whole cottage industry of people who use freedom of information laws and other tactics to force police departments to release body can footage to the public.

Some of these channels get a million views or more per video.

I keep an eye on the channels, and YouTube is happy to put new videos in my feed every day, so most days I watch corrupt cops lie in official arrest reports, with body cam footage not backing up their lies.

I watched one video a few weeks ago showing a cop planting drugs.

I watched a video the other night where six or eight cops forced a dying man out of an ambulance. He wanted to go to the hospital because he was struggling to breathe, but the ambulance attendance thought that he was abusive. (He apparently had been clutching at them in panic as he tried to get air in his lungs. I can relate to that. My father used to behave that way when he was in the end stages of COPD. It was awful.)

Anyway, the man was Black and looked homeless. The cops evidently assumed he was drunk or high so did not deserve help. (He was neither. He was actively dying.)

Those cops didn't offer him so much as a helping hand as he stumbled and fell exiting the ambulance. They mocked him as he staggered to a bench, and then trying to sit down, fell on his face and bled.

Many minutes past as he stayed on his face on the ground, not communicating. The cops laughed and joked among themselves until finally somebody decided they'd better see if he was okay.

He wasn't. He was unconscious, and he later died from his acute illness.

The more members of the public see cops in action, raw and unedited, the more we despise them and mistrust them. Cops tend to be really terrible people. Cop culture is depraved. Cops mistreat people out of bias, they bully people because they can, and they lie their asses off constantly.

And corrupt? Did you see the New York Times article yesterday about the traffi-patrol officer who lost his career because he wouldn't honor cards meant to give the relatives of police officers a pass from traffic tickets? That corruption was emanating from the highest levels of NYPD leadership. NYPD l leaders are thoroughly, unapologetically corrupt.

And now we get to see it every day on our phones and devices. All we have to do is click and watch cops behave in morally reprehensible ways.

Then, as an extra special bonus, we get to watch police departments and police unions defend morally outrageous behavior.

People in the United States increasingly distrust and hate the police because we see them in action for who they are. They're bringing this upon themselves.

Only they can restore trust. But I don't see that happening anytime soon. I don't see the sick cop culture in the United States becoming healthier. Instead, I see cops digging in their heels.

Something is going to have to give, and I don't know what it's going to be.