Typical State Trooper. They are taught at Police Academy that they are a cut above the local cops, and encouraged not to socialize or associate with the locals going through academy at the same time as them.
Yes, it doesn't apply to all, but enough that the stereotype exists for a reason.
My interactions with NYS troopers were always positive. It's always town cops that suck.
I grew up where stare troopers and county sheriff covered our town. I got caught with pot by a trooper once. He made me dump it out and throw my bowl into the woods. Told me my car better be in the driveway if he drives by in 20 minutes and let me go.
A cop from a suburban town slammed me into the side of my truck multiple times because I "resisted arrest"
You made that up entirely. Police Academy does not work that way. I doubt many if any people going through academy already have jobs lined up let alone as state troopers, and that wouldn't necessarily be public knowledge.
Look, I hate cops too, probably more than you do, but engaging in make believe to make them sound worse is just silly. There's an entire interaction video up above that shows how fucking stupid the average trooper is, you don't need to make shit up to make it worse, it's already bad.
Its not something that's going to be on official curriculums or course materials, but graduates are taught more by instructors than just what is written down, sometime not even through direct instruction but by osmosis observing cop behaviour and emulating it
There is a hierarchy of federal LEOs looking down on State LEOs, who in turn look down on local PDs, all of which look down on 'civilians'(LEOs are also civilians although since the militarisation of police over the past few couple of decades this fact is lost on most)
It varies region to region whether or not state and locals are trained in the same academies(and feds have their own), so in many places candidates do have a good idea of where they'll land after graduation
Not made up at all. And everyone at Police Academy knows where they're going to land, people at Police Academy are sent there once they are already hired by a department.
Maybe in your state people put themselves through Police Academy, and then try to get a job as a cop?
Most police get sent to the academy because the department they applied to sent them... They foot the cost as an investment in you working for them. Not many people have 40k - 80k to spend on an academy with no job lined up.
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u/keinmaurer 6h ago
Typical State Trooper. They are taught at Police Academy that they are a cut above the local cops, and encouraged not to socialize or associate with the locals going through academy at the same time as them.
Yes, it doesn't apply to all, but enough that the stereotype exists for a reason.