[prof.h.mandingo]

There are still a lot of good cops out there.
One problem I see (former State LEO and adult probation officer)is the training. There is much more emphasis on what I call RoBOCoP training. Many young officers look like “Arnold” with the craze for body building. Some around here actually look like they are on steroids. That would explain the aggression.
We had a couple like that about 35 years ago but it was rare.
Also with all the Homeland Security idiots running around it increases their level of paranoia.
I understand times are different but even back then I was a half second from having to shoot. Thank God I didn't have to but I would have and not lost sleep over it.
Most cops back then had more common sense. We had some gung-ho types but we always told them to join the Army if they wanted to act like that. We were trained to DEFUSE a situation not make it worse.
Some of that may have been from being on the road alone with no help for miles. That dog looks just like one that came up to our house about a year ago. Sweetest dog we ever had. She wags her tail and her whole butt shakes. The vets. lover her.

[libstripper]

My two dogs are a Pitador (half Black Lab and half Pit), who weighs 85 lb. and a still growing Great Dane at 104 lb. The vets love them too. What really galls me is that one is a breed mix that’s often banned and the other, the Dane, is a breed that’s sometimes banned, even though both are the sweetest, friendliest, silliest dogs imaginable.

[OldPossum]

That would explain the aggression.

I disagree. I suspect--don't have the evidence, just a suspicion--that today's cops are selected precisely for their aggressiveness. I would imagine that these tendencies are identified in the personality tests they are administered.