My greatgrandfather (born c. 1900) was a cop. A good cop and a good man, from everything I know about him, even if he “had his things” (like everybody); for example, he lived most of his life in Catalonia but not only refused to learn Catalan, he wouldn’t accept hearing it in his house. But his service record was absolutely pristine and he eventually reached the highest non-com grade in that service.
I never got to meet him, but I understand he could put enough sarcasm into acosado a preguntas, el preso confesó that the air over the sentence would corrode 24k gold (“after intense questioning, the prisoner confessed”). The intense questioning would often involve some stiffness and, if the questioner wasn’t very good, bruises and broken bones. He was definitely not in favor of intense questioning, as he reckoned that taking a detour into a bar for a pair of sodas (for him and his partner) and a beer (for the prisoner) worked wonders if the prisoner did in fact have something to say, and that intense questioning leads to people saying whatever they think will make the pain stop. But he was a rarity among his coworkers: intense questioning was the way of the day, as it had been for the previous centuries, in most police bodies worldwide.