article_snippet.sent: Nationwide, training that pushes pre-emptive action, military experience that creates a warzone mindset, and legal system favoring police in misconduct cases all lead to scenarios where officers see the people officers serve as enemies, Melvin Tucker, a former FBI agent and police chief in four southern cities who often testifies in police misconduct cases said. '
article_snippet.sent: The result, They say, is that officers are regarded with a mixture of distrust and fear.
article_snippet.sent: It's almost impossible to get an agency to do an impartial internal affairs investigation,' Tucker said/ . '
article_snippet.sent: First of all the investigators doing it are co-workers of the person being investigated.
article_snippet.sent: Number two, there's always the tendency on the part of the departments to believe the officers.'