I don't know if red state cops were ever any good. It's hard to imagine. All I can think of is mirror sunglasses, fat guts, and unintelligible English, but maybe that's the movies. I don't know.
I do know, however, that OUR cops up here are creampuffs compared to their predecessors from when I was a kid. Some of those old time micks and wops and polacks could really go, God bless them.
Sometimes they went at each other. Good stuff.
All cops are bad...it doesn't matter what state they are in.
The institution of law enforcement is corrupted, so it will never produce positive outcomes.