I haven’t had any dealings with them for many years but at one time, Florida Highway Patrol were top quality. My Sunday School teacher was one and he was a fine man.
When I was a little kid back in the early 1950s, I had to walk home from school, nearly 2 miles. Several times, state troopers stopped and gave me a ride home. Same thing happened to my Brothers and Sisters.
That is probably against the rules now.
My singular bad experience with a WSP trooper was a little over a year ago, right after rotator cuff surgery.
I was driving home from the hospital and had this huge arm support system on my left arm. The cop was entering the freeway right next to me, braked to get behind me and turned on his blues immediately.
He pulled me over for not wearing a seat belt. I came very close to laughing in his face when he actually ticketed me.
My wife was in the car with me and she DID laugh.
His whole attitude was obviously napoleon syndrome from the git-go. The guy was like 5’5”. I remember thinking, at the time, “I thought the WSP had minimum height requirements.”
But other than that one guy, they are always nice and reasonable people, even when I get a ticket.