Traffic tickets are good revenue if the perps look docile.
Give them a drunk to slam around and they love it.
I have no more respect for most of them than I do the hacks at motor vehicles.
State cops are the worst. They're not out there to protect you... they're out there to make money for the state!
I believe there is plenty of truth in everything you say. Yet most of the cops that I have met and know personally are very nice folks. I figure, tho, that there are many that are drawn to the force for the wrong reasons + quite a few that don't handle confrontations well.
'Course lots of folks go into politics for the same reasons, to exercise power and control people. Especially Democrats.