Having lived in the Brunswick,Ga. area for a few years, the FLETC center there had a positive effect on the community in the aspect that the trainees' on their off time would intermingle with the local population and observed first hand how the local drug dealers and other riff raff operated. Without interfering with the local Law Enforcement.
Personally I think that the better our LEO's are trained the better off we all are. But then I'm a convicted felon myself because I could not afford a defense Attorney.'food for thought'