The other problem with hiring ex military, presupposing a military background is good experience for law enforcement is that it doesn't really seem to show any understanding of what being a policemen or a soldier consists of, about the only similarity is they both wear uniforms, other than that nothing about being a soldier, operating with a large group, having a routine day obeying commands in a hierarchical structure that requires you to use ordered known responses to a known predictable situation, has any similarity to being a cop where you spend your day alone or with maybe a partner having to rely on your common sense and social skills to deal with endlessly unpredictable and unknown situations that have no real trainable steps to solve.
That isnt to say ex military couldnt be a good cop but it is no more likely than ex McDonalds staff or any other background
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