I've seen too much to think all policemen are just bad or all good. But there are way more bad ones than some on this board seem to realize.
Beat cops can be very touchy, if you give them any suggestion of dissing them some will jump at the chance to jail you. You must say yes sir, no sir, and do whatever they say to keep from making them mad enough to haul you in, no matter who is in the right.
If I were the cop who popped Drake, I would have put him in the back seat of the car for about ten minutes, then asked him if he was ready to go home. He would have crawled back under that tape line at that point, lesson learned, without the public standing the expense of a court procedure and all the rest.