@mybarkingdogs @bookstodon >gives us clues about how it can be done.
I think if we write cops in our stories, we have to present them as complex flawed individuals. We have to aschew the trope of the Genius Maverick Detective that has dominated the last 20 years, getting one over his superiors with his charm and solve record(he's almost always a man, his superior is usually a woman or minority)