[My gripe is that the normal decent folk in that group don’t/won’t/can’t remove the buttheads from amongst them.]
I grew up in a family of LEOs and Firemen.
Starting back in the 70’s Affirmative Action forever altered those professions such that none of my siblings or cousins had any inclination to follow in their American parent’s footsteps.
“...Affirmative Action forever altered ...”
It altered a LOT of things. Lowering the qualifications to create an artificially-equalized environment does only one thing: create an artificially-equalized environment with aggrieved, aggressive minorities demanding payback for imagined slights.