That should be a good thing
I don't know. I understand why they like them, they are already trained on how to handle weapons and obey orders without question. I think the .gov also gives PDs and prisons some sort of incentive to hire people when they leave the military so they aren't unemployed. I read that somewhere, don't know how true it is.
The older cops that have commented on a couple of forums I participate in have said a lot of the younger guys eat, breathe, and live law enforcement and are little Nazis. You often see them on policeone.com and officer.com. They don't often use judgement and discretion, and if told to confiscate guns from citizens or arrest them for onerous and unconstitutional weapons violations, would, whereas the older guys would refuse or quit. In fact, at least one younger cop admitted it saying that he will do whatever he is told to do, and if you don't like the laws, change them. He is not an Oathkeeper.
One LEO on a car forum, well, let me quote what he stated:
This is typical of what I have tried to tell many here regarding what type of applicants you get for police officer when you pay crap wages and have poor benefits.
NO has had nationwide advertisements out for years looking for cops from other parts of the country to come and work there. Guess why not many do? Guess what type of recruits they get for entry level positions?
Don't get me wrong I know there are some dedicated, hard working, and honest copper's working there. They are just over shadowed by the large number of criminals posing as cops.
That was after I posted this about the NOPD:
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/nopd_report.pdf
This just covers the last few years, and doesn’t even go back far enough to address the Katrina stuff. Here’s a couple of excerpts. I urge you to read the whole thing. Police corruption is widespread, rampant, and structural (supported by the brass).
The NOPD has long been a troubled agency. Basic elements of effective policing— clear policies, training, accountability, and confidence of the citizenry—have been absent for years. Too many officers of every rank either do not understand or choose to ignore the boundaries of constitutional policing. Some argue that, given the difficulty of police work, officers must at times police harshly and bend the rules when a community is confronted with seemingly intransigent high levels of crime. NOPD’s failure to ensure that its officers routinely respect the Constitution and the rule of law undermines trust within the very communities whose cooperation the Department most needs to enforce the law and prevent crime.
The deficiencies in the way NOPD polices the City are not simply individual, but structural as well. For too long, the Department has been largely indifferent to widespread violations of law and policy by its officers. We found that the deficiencies that lead to constitutional violations span the operation of the entire Department, from how officers are recruited, trained, supervised, and held accountable, to the operation of Paid Details. In the absence of mechanisms to protect and promote civil rights, officers too frequently use excessive force and conduct illegal stops, searches and arrests with impunity.
We found that officers in NOPD routinely use unnecessary and unreasonable force in violation of the Constitution and NOPD policy.
Our investigation did not include consideration of widely reported allegations of officer misconduct related to NOPD’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many of these incidents have been, or are currently being, prosecuted by the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana. We deliberately kept our civil investigation separate from the criminal investigation and prosecution of any NOPD officer, and this Report does not discuss any incident that is the subject of ongoing federal criminal proceedings. Nonetheless, our investigation, which covered incidents that occurred within the past two years and assessed practices as they exist currently, revealed a clear pattern of unconstitutional uses of force by NOPD officers.
That’s just a TINY bit of the executive summary. Read the entire thing. It’s only 158 pages.
As stated above, this doesn't even cover the Katrina abuses. Just recently there were 23 NOPD (New Orleans Police Department) convictions in the Danziger Bridge murders, including civil rights infractions, cover-ups, planting evidence, and homicide (charged with murder). That is just one. One of many.
