Neglecting police abuse is an intentional policy. For the same reasons Trump pardoned violent criminals. It's a fear message to the public. The right believes in rule by terror, even while red states show its poor effectiveness.
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Someone does know, they just don't care.
Oo, I can do you one better: Nobody knows how many jails there are! You'd think it would be an easy question, but no, jails aren't a strongly defined thing - every mall, school, sporting venue and major industrial facility has a jail in it and often nobody is aware of that. Every prison has a jail, too, and pretty much every rural gas station has at one point served as a jail. Drug treatment programs, inpatient mental health, troubled youth education, all either count as jails or have jails attached.
The biggest issue in this subject is that people think of jails as a definite institution, when it's a poorly definied broad categorical term that roughly means "place where a person can be detained without a LEO present". The reason for this failure in reporting, besides systemic police incompetence, is that there's no systems in place for reporting of this - nobody knows who to report this information to, nobody knows if they're the person who should be reporting it, etc.
While there's absolutely a component of pigs being pigs, the real issue is that we desperately need an overhaul to address the fundemental systemic gaps that go unnoticed. We don't even know how much of this is "pigs being pigs" and how much is human error and how much is it not being anyone's job to do this. It's disgusting.