While sitting here having coffee with my wife, I asked her to name all of the cops we know. She rattled off 12 names off the top of her head rather quickly. Twelve officers encompassing CCSO (Charles), PGPD, PGCSO, and MSP. Nine men, three women.
I then asked of those twelve, how many are cop apologists? She took 30 seconds and responded 11. Now, you asked for scientific. From my recollection of my college stat classes, 11 out if 12 is what's known as statistically significant. I can whip up some nice Excel graphs showing this in color with some nice logistic regressions if need be.
This is our experience. Twenty five years in federal law enforcement and intelligence training, including the training of many LEO's at the FBINA, FLETC in Georgia and Maryland can back this up to. I'm not a cop hater. I'm just a cop- culture hater. I've lived it. There is no other collectivity that IN GENERAL blindly defend their own--with the exception of perhaps Obama supporters.