Probably. Most campus police departments and many small agencies are extremely limited on funds. So their officers get very little training in anything. And then because they are also low pay with crappy benefits they tend to get officers falliing into one of three categories:
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Just starting out in law enforcement and hoping to move up to a bigger agency later. Thus very inexperienced.
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Officers who resigned or washed out of a bigger agency for some reason and will take any law enforcement job. The agencies love these officers because they are already trained and are less likely to leave since they washed out elsewhere. Obviously the fact they downgraded in their career path should be concerning since there is obviously a reason why they couldn’t cut it at the bigger agency (though a few do fall victim to politics).
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Applicable only to small town officers - its a job in their podunk town which they don’t want to leave so they take it as a job and not because of any innate desire to be a good officer.
