Here's the trend:
My state passed a law that allows officers who obtain an Associate's to get a 10% pay increase; 20% for a Bachelor's; 25% for a Master's (Crim. Just. or Law only). About half the guys who never went to college took advantage of the thing and got degrees at the diploma mills that sprang up.
A lot of the fellas get their brains washed but good. Without a firm technical understanding of the foundational aspects of US tradition, they are at the mercy of liberal college profs and their fawning, brainless fans in the mixed classes. Cops get called Nazi's and such for expressing an opinion about this or that conservative notion, and they usually cow because they don't know how to defend or even articulate the truth they can feel in their guts.
The rank and file in this Northeastern State is being 'transformed' in other ways, too. I could go on.
Suffice to say, don't depend on protection for your rights from PO's. Conservatives are marginalized: Libs are awarded rank. You wouldn't believe the stuff some of these college educated cops spew as 'known fact'. It's like "The Body Snatchers".
The thin edge of the wedge, getting thicker by the day.
Sorry but I’ve been there and for the most part you are wrong, there are always exceptions to the rule.