And I'm sure cops of previous ages bemoaned your generation as soft shitbags dressings down for your comfort, instead of wearing a full dress uniform with coat, Sam Browne (an actual one, not a just a fucking duty belt), riding breeches and knee high boots.
Well, maybe not Kansas because it's hot as balls, but that was the dress in many areas of the Northeast before they went to a typical late-20th century uniform. The old timers looking down on the newer generation is a cycle, with every generation thinking they're God's Chosen when they get to a certain age, and that they did it right and the new guys are shitbags, regardless of the fact they were at once the young generation of shitbags to the old timers.
Yes, it's quite possible I'm anti uniform, given I left those to my two last jobs and am now a plainclothes fed.
FWIW I always liked wearing my Chuck's when I was in the USMC, but the idea of doing policing work in those, to me, is just fucking retarded.