I will say this. The new recruits that we (older cops) see coming I to the job have a very different view of police work. I am a training officer and the first thing I give my trainee is a thumb drive with the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments...along with policies. Va Legal guidelines. It seems that they have a hard time wrapping their heads around the concept that there are some things that police just can’t do. No kidding on this...I work in a college town. We get creamed in breaking and entering a every school break. So we try to get as much foot patrol in those off campus housing areas as possible. Well, one enterprising young officer went around checking doors to the homes and apts. if he found one unlocked he made entry into the house and looked around. He wrote a report that the doors were unsecured. We pulled him aside. I told him if I go to the store and left my door unlocked...and he went in my house I would sue the shit out of him. Unbelievable
I wonder how much of that is crappy education, or an upbringing with helicopter parents and no developed sense of personal boundaries and limits, or just general cluelessness.
Things might have turned out worse here in Texas if somebody was taking a nap in that home and their handgun was close by when they woke up startled...