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"It's been years since I met a young LEO who wasn't on a power trip. Something has changed in the training that manifests itself in the LEO being a A-hole."

Yup, sure has; but, it ain't the training that's changed.
It's the screwed-up, hyper-vilolent, increasingly criminal and hellbent, mindlessly belligerent public.
That's what has changed.

A cop's not a shrink; which, apparently some [here] think they oughta be.
As a taxpayer-citizen I'm paying those guys to enforce the law.
Period.

If I were policing today an individual would be told *once* why we came into contact & what'd be needed for me to go away, not twice.

Putting on a badge these days just for the *privlege* of dealing with a near-psychotic public (& their warped sheisters) demands one rely on a base survival instinct, quickly; or, be eaten *alive*.

...*fact*.

It's the screwed-up, hyper-vilolent, increasingly criminal and hellbent, mindlessly belligerent public.

Yep, every damn one of us is a criminal. That is exactly the type of thinking that put's the LEO's I'm referring to in the A-hole category.

You might want to tone down the hyperbole too a little Landy, it makes you look a little screwed-up, hyper-vilolent, increasingly criminal and hellbent, and mindlessly belligerent.

It's the screwed-up, hyper-vilolent, increasingly criminal and hellbent, mindlessly belligerent public. That's what has changed.

Violent crime in every category has been steadily declining over the last 20 years. Society is not getting any more dangerous, so there is no reason for cops to get more belligerent towards the people who pay their salaries.