re: Has there been a shift in support for law enforcement?

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Many of them were the type to be picked on in their younger years, and turn to police work for the gun and the badge and the feelings of power that come with it

It's especially true these days as most of the "good" cops have left the job and recruitment is scrapping the bottom of the barrel for qualified applicants.

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I grew up in small town and my uncle was super close with a bunch of the "city" PD and local state troopers. They were respectable and at least reasonably intelligent guys. Or at least that's how they came off to me as a 10-14 year old.

Now that I'm an adult, the people I am seeing become police are just a completely different quality of men. Obviously not in a good way.

eta: geography and demographics are a big factor though. I'm sure the small town PD I'm referring to gets better candidates because there's literally no chance they ever get smoked by some triple felon drug dealer on the side of the highway or whatever.