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Not all police are arrogant. But the uniform, gun, badge etc. does attract those who want to flaunt their macho image.
Those seem to seek out situations in which they can show how tough they are.
They seem to seek out people they think are inferior and use the badge to take advantage of them.
A prime example: Not too long ago I was driving on W. Burnside near third in a rainstorm. A woman had apparently slipped and fallen and I stopped beside her and rolled down my window to ask if she needed help. A marked car pulled up beside me and one of the city's finest told me to stop trying to pick up hookers and to "get out of his city". Then he shouted at the woman that he had better not see her in "his area" again. She started crying and then several people nearby helped her to her feet and she was obviously well dressed and not a street prostitute. This was in the mid afternoon.
This officer was a middle age "skin head" type with an apparent attitude that anyone who might be in that part of town was way beneath him. There seem to be a lot of those types of police in the downtown area.
I live in the suburbs and the officers there are totally different from those in downtown.
I suspect those with an arrogant attitude seek those types of beats where they can find people they can bully.
Rather than worry about education level, police recruiters should concentrate on weeding out those types of personalities during pre-hiring interviews.