Don't want to step on toes, but most likely I will. The truth is that there is a standard that we expect from certain professional and when someone in that profession does something stupid it hurts the whole profession. There are are a number of dumb cop just like there are a number of dumb nurses/doctors, businessmen and any other profession that hurt their profession do to their stupidity.But would it have been followed by posts condemning all nurses for the behavior of one? Or posts saying this type of action can be expected from nurses?
If you want to hear generalization just talk about businessmen or doctors. They're greety, don't care about the normal guy, etc... You name it and its been said, when in reality we wouldn't have the type of lives we live without these types of people, nor do most of professionals fit into that category. In fact most of them are your normal everyday Joe.
That is just my $.02.