Different departments have different standards. The LAPD has hired some pretty famously dangerous assholes in it's day, so they have become pretty picky. A dud

Different departments have different standards. The LAPD has hired some pretty famously dangerous assholes in it's day, so they have become pretty picky. A dude from my high school, whose father was a SWAT lieutenant, tried to join but was denied. They had interviewed a bunch of his friends, and during the interview he was asked "why do you yell at your girlfriend so much?" A smaller department, lets say Bakersfield PD, might not be so picky.