They may not be military but there is an prevalent Us-cops vs. citizens train if thought which is strong and getting stronger.
I know too many officers who have this mentality. As per example a friend of mine went through a roadblock and her tags were expired. One officer a new one wanted to write her up. The other officer said, go ahead but it will be taken care of before you get back to the station. Her husband is one of us. No ticket and she had the tags corrected by the end of the day.
I have relatives who are officers active and retired, same thing, us vs. citizens, although the retired relatives are not as stringent in taking the us vs. citizen attitude.
It’s really hurting the average Joe’s view of police as their friend and not to be trusted. From what I am hearing no one wants anything to do with the police good or bad unless absolutely necessary and not then even, they just want to be left alone.
Those citizens in denver should have asked for warrants as the police had no probably cause to pull over every single citizen and handcuff them. That was nothing more than a round up of any poor soul who happened to be in the area and then them having to produce their papers please, be handcuffed and then have to allow a search of their vehicle to prove their innocence.