There's an obvious correlation between the wealth of a community and the quality of its police force. Poor communities get poor policing, and their lack of resources is why they're where all those bad apples keep rolling.

That's too sweeping a generalization to get by without clarification. "Bad apples" tend to be a minority of even the worst police force, but their rot spreads, especially when the rot starts at the top. The bad apples have a disproportionate effect on the quality of policing, because the community learns to distrust all cops because of the few.

The situation is only going to get worse as Republicans skew the priorities, through legislation and rules and grants, away from uniform national standards of justice for all, in favor of "local standards", i.e. be just as racist and thuggish as your local knuckledraggers will turn a blind eye to. And neuter the Justice Department as the final enforcer of standards of quality policing.

You know, the good old days.