>>8455
It was like that a hundred years ago, when cops walked a beat on foot, maybe with a revolver, maybe just a nightstick.
It isn't the army. The cadets at the state police academy aren't draftees. They're allowed to quit.
I guess they could bring in some retired DIs to smoke them for failing to shoot the Army qual course clean, thirty for thirty with no alibis and no do-overs, or for calling a magazine a "clip." It'd be hilarious and 100% deserved. And an hour later the Internet would be on fire with weepy emails to the Governor, and an hour after that the new instructor would be shown the door. This was the case even before Affirmative Action.
Where I live the police departments don't allow their officers to participate in IPSC or IDPA on their own time. High speed low drag SWAT guys would show up in navy blue BDUs with RMR'd Glocks in duty rigs, and get blown out, over and over and over and over, by Boomer hobbyists with bad eyes shooting singlestack 1911s with irons and sometimes even wheelguns. It was making the departments look bad.
When there are "lethal force incidents," the cops usually do win, so much so that it's national news when a cop dies in the line of duty. This probably has something to do with demographics. We're not supposed to notice that their opponents are usually Vibrantly Diverse Cultural Enrichers whose mathematically perfect lack of inhibition when it comes to violence tends not to compensate for their room-temperature IQs.
There have been some law enforcement officers who were highly skilled, cool-headed, and resolute. Jelly Brice comes to mind. Bill Jordan. Charles Askins. Jim Cirillo. They were the exception seventy years ago, long before the beginning of the concerted effort to drive Whitey out of law enforcement and replace him with IQ-55 Dayshawn and sassy four hundred pound Stronk Womyn Who Don't Need No Man.