>>513882214 (OP)
Former trooper. My experience was guys on the bottom are cool, guys at the top are the worse type of people. Whenever an agency is investigated for corruption, the people they put in are substantially worse. A lot of the people there were pretty normal, just often times more street smart for obvious reasons. But they’re not always as street smart as they like to pretend.
Example: If an agency has a charge of discriminating against black people, the new command staff that comes in will then discriminate against cops.
Newer cops who are younger and white (think below the age of 30) are often times cut throat and only out for themselves. Women are almost always drama. I’ve heard of women being good from an admin POV, but every female trooper I’ve met had an over inflated ego (beyond that of a normal trooper) or we’re genuinely abhorrent in personal conduct and had a who but me attitude. I’ve never met a female trooper I’ve respected. Black road troopers/cops are extremely competent in my experience even tho their scores are generally lower on tests.
My experience is the more specialized an LE officer is, the more down to earth he is. Once he is true command staff or is gunning for a position, he sells his soul.
I’ve never had long term interaction with command staff and thought they were decent people, but to be fair my former shithole agency is renowned for only promoting vermin supreme to command staff