Probably because both law enforcement and football are legalized fighting.
If you are a fighter, it is natural to resolve problems by fighting.
Members of those professions who separate their professional instincts from their private life are to be commended. They are the true gentlemen.
Valor and chivalry are going down the tubes because faith in God is doing so. God never went anywhere. People moved.
I fought a lot...a whole lot in my life
I survived in hostile environments that necessitated it
I never hit a split tail in my life....but I have spanked kids
I grew up when most my pals had daddies who were vets of one of the WWIIcombat theatres and some....you could just tell.....had killed many men being there
None of them beat their wives and most were softer on the kids....all that blood and death sorta made them less hormone aggressive unless you asked for it...then it was like Peleliu again....but they had to feel threatened
Like Eugene Sledge from Mobile Alabama and fought his way through two years of Pacific island hopping....on the line for months at a time....arguably worst combat any US troop ever endured
Came home with THE STARE and never even bird hunted again.
So....I’m not sure environment does this....
Role models...expectations..... societal pressures.....God.....its the lack of all that......and how culture views women