When I was a kid... all the police in my city were big, fit, strong and imposing. Now it is a rare thing when I see a cop whose @ss I could not kick in a fair fight. Many are weak fat @sses. It is hard to command respect when you look like the Pillsbury doe-boy or a Munchkin.
One of the reasons we have so many police shootings in the USA is because way too many policemen in our country do not have the ability to command respect with their presence nor the physical strength to enforce their will. Respect is not gifted... it is earned... just putting on a uniform does not mean you should automatically be respected. Physical fitness and physical standards should be screening criteria for police.
You should see the difference within european countries.
You go to spain or italy and see kid sized women dressed in a uniform accompanied from middle aged overwieght men who probably should be more concerned about a heart attack than a bullet.
Clearly NOT EVERYONE but most you see around, even the young ones hardly have a commanding presence.
Then you go to Poland or the baltic states and you see big bulky guys wheter they are 25 or 55 if they are on patrol, women officers themselves are in shape and you will hardly find kid sized or overweight ones on the streets.
In my opinion police officers on duty should be recruited with stricter standards in terms of body shape and they should also be kept under control while they serve, a police officer on the streets cannot afford to be weaker than the people he should deal with.
The problem is that generation snowflake saw police movies on tv and decided to be one pushing for more and more tolerance to join.
Also kid sized women are the ones who want the most to stay out of office.
I recall once outside a club I was discussing with my date and this woman officer came and said that I either calmed down or I would have been taken to the station, I didnt even bother to acknowledge her presence and she simply walked away.