Police seem to be taught that everyone should be treated as a criminal until proven otherwise. They're taught a lot of power games, and a lot of toxic authoritarian mentalities. I remember once in an airport, I was questioning a security guard on the legality of her asking to search my bags, to do a random bomb test, and at one point in the conversation she said something like: "Everyone is a potential terrorist. You're a potential terrorist." That's the kind of bizarre adversarial attitude that people in law enforcement seem to have, and of course she was trained to think that way.
Slight tangent, but it reminds me of this popular post from Tumblr, about double standards:
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
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Great comment. I've always had an issue with the "respect" thing. The Tumblr quote you posted explained it well!