“A lot of them are threatened by the work we do.”

To an authoritarian, which not all police are, but the line of work would certainly have an appeal to, the worst thing you can do is actually fix problems in the long-term. Authoritarians rely on people’s fear as their excuse for being granted extra power. That fear, in turn, relies on problems existing. If you defuse any link in this three-part chain of perceived problems–>be afraid–>give me power to “fix it”, then their reason to exist begins to fade away.

So yes, some of them probably do feel very threatened by this work, in direct proportion to how successful it proves.

Must be quite the envy to see former criminals take away your job and be better at it as well. No wonder the police is treating them like that.

Always ACAB.