The problem is deeper than it appears to most people. When I got in law enforcement a couple of decades ago (I won’t say how long, but they were still issuing revolvers at 98% of the departments), officers handled things differently as a matter of course.

As time passed, police were increasingly militarized. In my mind, this creates foreseeable results, resulting in even more of an us v. them attitude that you see from the DPS spokesman. It has become a “how dare you question my authority” issue, and it won’t get better until the public insists on changes.