mostly from the older generations though. the real issues with police culture in the states began once they pivoted to hiring enlistees home from the middle east with untreated psychiatric disorders and a messiah complex from the slavish treatment neoconservative politicians and followers dumped on them. it used to be more professional and of and amongst the civilian population before that; tattoos were rare and you could rely on a certain "civil servant" mentality outside of the sticks. now? ljl military killorder training + war/home trauma + "under siege; back the blue, us vs them" mentalities=a melting pot of disdain for the public and unaccountable uses of force

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736860&forum_id=2],#49010261)

I never work with real patrol type cops. The higher ups are usually pretty chill...or some form of dei. Thinking about this, I saw a huge number of the chill civilian types retire out through COVID. It's not a good trend. And a similar stock of candidates to replace them are not from the same category, it's way more the shit group you mentioned above. Normal guys that probably hired on in the early 90s before dei and BLM are gone and the same types of dudes wouldn't even consider a career in LE now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736860&forum_id=2],#49010333)

I remember Gingrich/Ron Paul types at the time saying that these sorts of linkages would lead to a militarization of local PDs and neocons scoffing it off. Like so many of their other predictions, those turned out to be spot on

A lot of words have been written about the wages of hiring traumatized warfighters into PD positions and it was a good lib cause celebré for a while but with the left's turn against police culture in general you don't hear much about it these days

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736860&forum_id=2],#49010581)

it's a major issue. no locale that isn't strictly urban or plagued by dense violent crime clusters needs APCs and hundreds of tactical long rifles and automatics available in the PD armory; those same paleocons and libertarians correctly surmised that these militarized PDs would become a tool for state repression down the line, and the blowback for traditionally "right wing" causes under fire by these same consequences has been palpable re: covid response, police enforcement of bizarre leftist policies, etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736860&forum_id=2],#49011208)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvCuLr1ooHI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736860&forum_id=2],#49010499)