> That, experts say, speaks to a cultural attitude that is endemic to the profession, and is hard to change with new chiefs or rules. Thomson encountered this when he tried to make change in Camden. The police department was so dysfunctional that the city took the unprecedented step of disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch.
This American Life did a story about a new chief trying to reform the Firehouse culture in Amsterdam in order to combat discrimination:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/684/transcript
Spoiler alert: he failed. It's hard to turn an organization around.