[Small-L]

Another example of the macho-cop, adrenaline-pumping, tough-guy mentality to infects virtually every officer in every small town police force in the nation. I live in the South and here, it comes with the breeding--macho is a job requirement. We have to recognize that these people are the less-than intellectual high-school dropouts, GED, or bottom of the class winners that couldn't get into college, enlisted in the Army, served their tour as MPs and for lack of any other training went to the police academy. Their only claim to pride and power in their lives is putting on their uniforms and having other people look at them and fear them. Sounds a lot like politicians now that I think about it.

[PaxMacian]

You are all too optimistic about the foundations of law
enforcement. The real motivating factor for LEOs is the
force in enforcement. Those individuals whose lusts tend
toward the sadistic are drawn to positions in life where
they can most readily satisfy that lust with some sense
of justification. Also, there are those who simply need
to feel empowered over others to feel any sense of worth,
generally known as narcissists.