I worry more about his mentality and how that mentality is going to work against him in today's modern and modernizing police world.You underestimate the people who tailored for the field. Sure sometimes the public is frustrating, but if you do it the right way, you really don't care what other people think.
He's a product of small town policing. Where "the police can do no wrong" and the police are out to punish people for their mis-deeds. Gun-as-a-hammer even to work on nuts and bolts. He's still in his academy, as I said, so not "in the real world yet" - but when that comes, I'll worry about him.
Kid really needs to probably enlist in the .mil and serve a hitch, honestly.
Other nephew, the air marshal's kid, is separating the USAF security services in a few months. He may very well head to a LEO academy, too. Similar upbringings to a point, but then he moved to a much larger and much more diverse community when he moved to the Cleveland 'burbs to be with his dad. Plus 4 years of USAF culture. I'll worry about him, too, if he decides on becoming a LEO. He's a small kid (though stronk). It can be studied and shown that smaller statured men and women LEO tend to go for "gun" way more quickly than averaged-sized or larger male LEOs.