Why do they always idolise thugs
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Honestly, that mantra does more harm than good because it makes you relax around non-blacks, and it is meme racism (that's actually it's entire point). There is a reason that being a cop is a genuinely dangerous profession and relying on stereotypes is not going to help you when you are pre-disposed to encounter the worst possible case studies.
It's meant to program you to the worst possible outcome with blacks, which leads to inappropriate uses of force and unnecessary confrontation; allowing you to get complacent with non-blacks that might be showing subtle signs of a serious and lethal threat that you didn't pick up on.
Unlike almost any other profession, a cop can't ever get complacent with anyone, because you can't actually know that the person you're calmly talking to is planning on pulling a gun and shooting you in the face. The most dangerous people are the ones who are aware of the stereotypes and play to them as a weapon: well dressed 9/11 hijackers, female suicide bombers, so on and so forth.
Yeah, and they are usually a couple magnitudes safer around random non-blacks than they are around blacks. We've got pretty good history and stats to back that up, and any of us who actually lived around blacks long term have a good feel for the difference between those two situations thanks to the training called "life."
Especially because its only one group of people who sung "Cop Killer" into a top album and created the very situation where cops must live on edge at all times. If the "worst possible outcome" comes for them, then its called getting what you created.
It's not the worst possible outcome for them, it's the worst possible outcome for the cops. The whole point is that the police need to be consummate professionals so they can help people, even if those people are biased against them. Complacency is not an acceptable result because your expectations are skewed one way or another.
I didn't suggest complacency, only even more heightened nerves. You decided to turn it into "if you don't relax around blacks you must be complacent around others" which is foolish binary.
My issue is that the mantra absolutely promotes that foolish binary, though.