So, the state police run the police academy where the other police departments send their officers to be trained. It is very similar to military boot camp. A lot of yelling, screaming, pushups, running, and making beds. The troopers run the academy and do the yelling. So there is resentment in that aspect, but that is not why I disliked any troopers. My issue was that the instructors would preach about equality and brotherhood between police and troopers. But there is obviously a bias, as one would expect. What I did not expect was to hear the same troopers preaching about the brotherhood, tell the trooper cadets how special they were, how they were elite, how the basic officers did not have what it took. So that factors into stories.
Obviously, the basic class competed with the cadet classes. And the troopers come in from all over the state to volunteer to"teach and train" the basic officers, especially during the live training weeks at the end of 4 months. This involves paintball and fighting scenarios, and it is generally a lot of fun, but the troopers look at it as a chance to embarrass the lowly officers. So the first live scenario, a basic officer was ktfo by a trooper during a simulated arrest. So my partner grabs me and says "no matter what, that does not happen to us". Naturally, I agreed. So when shit went bad and the trooper starts swinging on me, I tried to play by the rules. I used the fake pepper spray, which the troopers were supposed to react to. He laughed and threw haymakers at me, just like he did the scenario before. Then he tries to take me down. This was ten years ago, so not everyone knew Bjj. I did, and that trooper took a nap and swallowed his chewing tobacco. I got screamed at, but I explained that I correctly escalated force. At the time he tried to take me down, a much higher level of force was justified. Of course, I got lit the fuck up with paintballs on the next few scenarios, but no one trid to put their hands on me again.
Another story was the night before graduation, I streaked down the cadets hallway wearing nothing but a velocity raptor mask. I even loped and bobbed my head. We thought it was pretty funny, for the cadets that still had another month, not so much.
