A friend is fond of saying that no problem is so bad that it can’t be made worse by calling the police. When I was a kid they seemed like just nice guys in uniform. Now they’re scary even in normal situations. It’s as if they now see the world as us vs. them. They don’t identify with civilians anymore. Not the ones I’ve met in the last few years.
I live near a small town, the cops know me and I know them. They are quite friendly and let people skate on things that a Dallas pig would not.
I believe police attitudes changed when they started hiring vets from the first Gulf War that came home with post traumatic stress injuries. I had a friend who came home deeply changed... and he went into policework after... I had no issues with him since were were friends... but the mindset was there... “Us vs. Them”.
You may be reflecting the attitude engendered by constant media presentations of police bungling. The media knowingly presents only the bad, not the thousands of daily harmless interactions between cops and citizens. Remember media now reflects the extreme left.
Same here, when I was a kid in school, a town cop pulled into the school yard and shot a stray dog that wasn’t bothereing anything right in front of the little kids!
In my sixty-some years since then I only recall two cops that didn’t fit the Bully-b-——ds/badges meme.