For that to be a possible cure, they should begin screening the police especially to remove the children, petulant bullies, scam artists, latent homosexuals, and in general employ only adults with some problem-solving capacity.

I assure you that has never, and will never happen.
The police are simply the worst elements of society, partially domesticated in the hope of placing them between even worse elements and ourselves – much in the same way that sheep dos were bred from wolves.
If they’re not fed, they’ll still eat sheep – and you.

Put soldiers into a law enforcement context and you’re likely to get lots of folks killed who didn’t need to be killed whereas on the other hand, if you put police officers into a military context you’re likely to get lots of dead police officers.

I’m not impugning police officers or soldiers here, it’s just that in a law enforcement context, your objective is usually to avoid violence and hopefully make an arrest, something that soldiers are ill equipped to do by training and inclination. in a military context, violence is generally a foregone conclusion and must be employed promptly and overwhelmingly, something that police officers are (and ought to be, given their most common tasks) ill equipped, trained and (hopefully) inclined to do