KBCraig
Regular Member
Even small town reserve cops typically have Associate's degrees, and in cities it's not unusual to find patrolmen with Master's degrees.BTW, some police departments require college degrees, so I don't recommend impugning the education level of cops. Many are quite educated.
The problem is, those degrees tend to be in Criminal Justice or Government, which amounts to "Vo-Tech for Police Officers". As you say, they rely on the mythology they're taught, not the actual law.
It's not unlike any other specialty degree program. A degree in Education teaches navigation of the profession, not how to teach, and certainly not mastery of any particular subject matter. The same is true for Criminal Justice degrees.