He asked a lot of questions that showed me he was a decent cop.

A decent cop, but no one the brass would take notice of until they decided he was a liability.

"They were fair, decent cops," says Maureen Mantineo, a public defender who went up against them often.

He looked and sounded as honest as a film star playing the decent cop.

What are the personal ramifications, for decent cops, of police brutality?

"It's a shame because some of the officers were decent cops."

He was a good lieutenant, a decent cop, a respected man.

He was a decent cop, very ambitious, had a flair for publicity.

It makes heroes of decent cops, gives us the night vision to see our own cities and doesn't spit on honest work.