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In all fairness, my dad became a cop in the first place because they didn't want him on the "other" side. One Saturday night he went into one of the local bars to arrest his younger brother, who was breaking the place up. 60 years later the locals still talk about that fight. Yeah, they were raised differently. If the only reason you can feel safe and hold your own as a cop is that you have a gun you're in the wrong profession.In all fairness, its a completely different type if recruit today vs back then. You have a more "diverse" group of people of more varying size and physical capability. You also have to deal with the product of a "violence solves nothing" upbringing. You have to take these people and get them to be effectively violent. If they don't get there, the confidence never develops and they can't effectively operate when things go bad.
So, you have to instill fear. Show them what happens when they are complacent. Show them how fast they can get stabbed or shot. Show them videos of cops getting the boots taken to them. The video of the female getting beat in an elevator while trying to retain her gun, is a good one. Its the only way to get them to take their head out of their azz because you'll never get them to be comfortable in their own skin.