I for one have a LOT of respect for most Law Enforcement Officers!!

Now with that said (I am not one but have dealt with many over several decades) I will say that some personality types that in everyday parlance we would call "Control Freaks" are attracted to that profession ... probably like extremely tall, athletic and coordinated people are attracted to pro basketball.

The better police departments and training programs work really hard to weed out those with excessive proclivities in that arena, and they virtually always succeed in keeping the worst out, but some do slip through.

By it's very nature policing REQUIRES a "take charge" type of personality ... just the nature of the business. Those types, no matter what job they are doing, as a group are going to be much more "in your face" and some will run into issues of going overboard at some time in their life. Show me a manufacturing plant of a couple of thousand people where a cross section of it's employees also end up with the same issues ... you CAN'T!

Most PO's are great people!! (and yes I have had run in's with a couple in my life - total assholes) They are also under a LOT of pressure daily (particularly the ones in the big cities). There is no way you could take a general cross section of people in society and end up with a group nearly as good as those who make up our uniformed police.

90% are GREAT, 9% are OK, and about 1% are assholes (and believe me departments try their best to get rid of that final group). Sort of sounds like the rest of society to me.