No. You're wrong for thinking that the cops you know who are nice to you is representative of how nicely the treat other people under their authority. The cops in this story more than likely have a multitude of people willing to call them good people. And yet they did kill a man on their beat because they used excessive force and chose to rely on protection from their bosses and co-workers to dodge punishment. That doesn't change no matter how nicely their friends or family talk about them. Hell my own mom is someone I'd call a nice person but that doesn't change the fact that she's a bigot who has never gotten over the gross idea that we as African people are superior to African-Americans. I've seen how much is different between how she treats family and how she treats those she's biased against.
Yes the institution does need to be changed but the institution exists because it's formed and overseen by the individuals within it. Cops are not separate from the institution they work in and have as much responsibility as anyone else, even more so, to push back against its bad and lift up its good.
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