I had the unfortunate experience of being involved in an automobile accident with injury, while drinking, and I can tell you that you do not want any part of the jail system, because that is where the lowest common subhuman denominator resides, many of them in a jailer position.
Acknowledging those serving as prison guards from a deep love of humanity and a desire to serve the lowest human denominators, ask yourself where you think the bullies and cowards of the earth go to find a job where they can fullfil their sociopathic drives with impunity, and the victims are mostly unarmed and impotently vulnerable.
As far as the police on the street locally, be very careful how you move around them, lest you get shot for making what they perceived to be a threatening gesture that left them gravely concerned for their own safety and that of those around them. They repeatedly gun folks down, some unarmed, and it has gotten bad enough for the federal government to step in our local law enforcement issues.
In something as simple as traffic court, they lie to support the ticket they have written, even after clearly being shown in error and one even threatened me leaving the courtroom after I proved without a shadow of a doubt that he was not only in error, but lying through his teeth, and the judge tossed his ticket.
How much do you think I trust them to be truthful on anything else?
Do I feel threatened, no, because I grew up in snake country and have learned to keep a watchful eye, and because except for walking my well trained dog off the leash and occasional mild speeding, I give them no reason to focus on me.
I'm courteous and polite to most people, that aren't in my face, and most of my encounters with local police officers have been at the worst neutral, but do not forget that even with the good guys protecting and serving in the mix, there is a disproportionate proportion of bullies and sociopaths in that profession.
I would personally get the signatures to put a bill before the voters to ban their profession entirely, if there weren't other sociopaths and psychopaths out there preying on us...........................................
If we took away their enforcement jobs, where would those sociopaths and psychopaths go???????????????