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Also the soldiers people typically treat a little nicer are usually long past their service and regret what they did heavily while arguing against further imperialism. People are incredibly wary of the ones that loved their time in the military.

Meanwhile the cops are actively working their jobs or living off a fat taxpayer pension which was their reward for killing 10 black people or dogs.

To your point though, military recruitment is, by nature, open to all but a small number of people, while cops are ostensibly a boys club that will turn anyone they “don’t like” away. They keep the best pay and pensions for “their kind”; while the military pays pennies and makes people beg like dogs to get medical treatment. The difference is fairly grim.