With all due respect, lumping all police together as being of one mind is just not realistic. While an agency's hiring practices may tend to select certain personality types or political leanings, and family traditions may tend to influence the applicant pool in a region, overall, we are a diverse group. Large agencies, especially, reflect this. While my agency's demographics to show the majority are still "white" males, a meeting last week, with the command staff and captains present, plus employees reps from the various divisions, showed that the people actually running the show are a very diverse in appearance, and the open forum nature of this quarterly meeting quickly reveals we are not all of the same political and philosophical leanings.