About 90% of stories I see in the modern day, with the OP article as a good example, involve the cops involved being brought up on charges

These are the egregious cases I talked about right here:

I will say there has been progress but it’s very slow.and incremental and only the most egregious cases like this are prosecuted

But police abuse happens all the time. It’s just not salacious enough for the national media to pick up the story for you to see.

The Seattle one is a lot harder to make sense of; the links are broken.

You can easily Google “Seattle police consent decree” if you’re interested in learning more. You brought up LAPD which us another perfect example as it has been reported that they have actual bonafide gangs operating within the department.