NYPD Black, Blue, and Trigger-Happy

Is the NYPD hiring only sado-masochistic repressed homosexuals? Some Tatoo artist (allegedly) got partially reamed by a nightstick in a Brooklyn subway station recently, and of course there was the Abner Louima case when, late 90s?
Also, New York must be the biggest market for Louisville Sluggers in the country. Some guy supposedly tried to take a whack at a female cop this week and was shot by her. Bats seem to be involved in an unusually disproportionate amount of group/gang attacks at least since the 80s.
This seems to be a long-loved tradition, as my brother is reading a book on Victorian New York and the thugs used "clubs" pretty often to keep things in line.
I normally blame police very little, because they are usually simply following the said or unsaid tacit orders of society's establishment.
In Grosse Pointe, Michigan, which borders Detroit on two sides and is home to the city's Old Money, cops cars are continuously run up and down the border with the city. Hence they are labeled racist.
But no cop can afford to live in Grosse Point, at least on salary only. That salary is paid by the people who once went to the point of trying to establish a "drainage canal" (ie a moat) on the Detroit border.
But the NYPD is getting carried away, it seems. They shot and killed a man in Coney Island for swinging a chair at them. Recently they shot an obviously disturbed man on a second story outside precipice, I can't remember if the cops said they felt menaced by him.
In any case, the police clearly need better training when it comes to the mentally unbalanced. And I wonder how bat sales are doing lately (maybe they come with rent controlled units).