Actually I'd wager most don't...and I have some insight into the matter. My grandfather was an off the boat tailor with a third grade education...who was also a brilliant, insightful guy...the comment was not meant to indicate a bright, educated person can't come from those classes...it was indicating that they're often from the same neighborhoods as the people they are typically regulating. The truth is that the high schools in those areas are less likely to produce ivy league lawyers and the culture is different from a middle class suburb. My father is brighter than me, but we're very different because he grew up in a tougher urban environment and I was raised as a suburban kid.

My job isn't glamorous either. I am not insulting the police here, though you seem bound and determined to take it that way...I am saying that it's unrealistic to expect the police to understand every law, or to understand legal principle that subject matter experts disagree over. Mistakes are to be expected. We've signed over a lot of authority to the police in our social compact and that has costs. I can tell you from first hand experience that most people know far less about the legal system, our laws and how things work than they think they do. The same is true of the police I know and encounter professionally...and I encounter a lot of them.

Filthadelphia, geeeee...never heard that one before. How clever