From what I’ve seen in the last couple of decades cops are doing a fine job of wedge drving all by themselves.
1. Training is much more extensive and is on-going as ‘continuing education’. A significant part of the training package contains marxist PC tropes disguised in the training. These portray white men who fit Freeper profiles as inherently dangerous. The general white population is presented as violent, untrustworthy , padophiliac and misogynistic. These hostile stereotypes are constantly repeated in training materials. This sort of training, is similar to how Iron Curtain nations used to instruct their police forces. He thinks the reasons are the same. Make LEOs inherently have a deep visceral distrust of what is considered to be normal white middle class Americans. The goal is to drive as deep a wedge between the police and the population as possible so police will do whatever the political leadership wants to do to the general population.
2. Being really proficient in using a firearm and being a good shot with various weapons and knowing a lot of general information on firearms (not just trained in how to hold the weapon and keep the finger off the trigger) is not considered desirable in a LEO. Such as do have this knowledge base are stigmatized as ‘gun nuts’ and considered to be unreliable police officers and probable ‘white racist militia types’.
3. While being proficient with firearms is discouraged physical fitness has become almost a mania in many police departments far beyond any practical application to have officers strong and fit enough to perform their duties. Cliques of officers who make weight training almost a fetish exist in many departments. Many of these officers use so many growth and strength aids they effectively become steroid addicts. From his circle of friends who are LEO’s and about his age, he said these weight lifting fanatics are considered to be bombs waiting to go off. Men with hair trigger tempers and a generally crazy adrenalin addicted personality. He refers to these people as ‘roid head dog shooters’. He believes this sort of dysfunctional personality is tolerated and even rewarded in order to make the police more ‘scary’ and threatening to the general populace.
One can draw whatever conclusions one wants from this mans insights. i found them frightening indeed.