BTTT - that’s all true — don’t get me started. I went to “cop shop” too — but the wanna-be-jackboots were just getting going then.... I only wanted to be able to carry a gun in my backpack, not be a full-time wanna-be green copper.... I left the agency in the 90s for graduate school and then the private sector.
You hit the nail on the head. Wanna-be-jackboots & wanna-be-green coppers.
I developed a theory, real fed cops, such as the FBI, at least start out as being dedicated to law enforcement. NPS cops have no such start and as mentioned before no professional LEO chain of command.
In essence many are just psycho green nut jobs with guns. They are prime SS/Gestapo material.