You say, you "GET IT". Then you continue with, "Its a career that forces MOST officers into a US against them mentality".I have heard my brother and his officer friends sit around and laugh about the things they have done, things that would get them fired in a heart beat if on film. They all to a man have an underlying contempt for the rest of society. You have it. You can sense it what you've written and how you've written it. I'm sure you will disagree.
The thing is this, I get it. I know why most all police I know tend to have mostly other police as friends. Its a career that forces most officers into a us against them mentality. There is no answers to solve all of the ills in society as there are no answers to the dissolving relationship between citizens and the police force that is there to protect them.
Do you really feel MOST(not a few, but MOST) officers have this relationship? You don't use some, but MOST. I say BS to that if MOST feel the way you describe, there would be a hell of a lot more people shot and neither camera or sound system would stop it.
You are simply wrong in the way you perceive MOST officers.