Many people mention that the police no longer resemble police from their childhood. Could it be that the criminal element that has invaded our society has gotten far more brutal than anything we could ever have imagined years ago? It has become almost a war zone in parts of our country.
For an idea of how cops used to be in the old days, you should read up on how the LA cops prevented the Italian Mafia from infiltrating LA. They were brutal.
The difference between cops before and cops today, is cops before went to war with the real bad guys. They didn’t pull punches, they weren’t hamstrung by PC runamok and they did what they had to do.
Today’s cops have an us against them attitude toward everybody who is not a cop. That wasn’t close to true 30 years ago let alone Sheriff Andy Taylor’s time.