[familyop]

"Who they are hiring are a bunch of kids from GDE level education who’ve been in the military."

I attended a police academy and did some patrolling as a reserve during the '90s. Saw the insides of several departments in various cities then. They weren't like police departments of the past. They didn't like veterans at all. The few who were hired were treated poorly (gossip, etc.). Not long ago, a neighbor cop, after hearing about my little bit of National Guard combat specialty service, asked me if I was like "Tim McVeigh."

It's highly doubtful that most police departments favor veterans any more--especially enlisted, non-officer veterans from combat specialties. [Whole lot of vanity and political correctness going around.] In the "us vs. them" games of politics today, veterans are one of the subgroups of "them."

[Carl from Marietta]

The vast majority of new hire policemen are from the military.

This is just a fact. It wasn’t always that way as most returning veterans were drafted and wanted to get on with their lives as they envisioned them prior to being called up. We’ve turned a dangerous corner lately though, and recently returned veterans who’ve been discharged find their friendly local police organization the best place for a job.

The problem is that the police have become a quasi military organization, including the titular nomenclature.

I built a police academy in south Georgia and I am certain of what I am saying. Just north of Brunswick GA is the FLETCH of which I was the architect and general contractor.

LEO’s hire ex military in far disproportionate numbers as they are the easiest to train for the current purposes.

Can you even imagine the LEO’s doing a face down take down on the 50s, what’s going on is preposterous, and there’s no excuse. Give me another Irish immigration, where patrolman O’Malley gave us the hand on the shoulder.