I wondered why police officers on Southland don't wear seatbelts. Somewhere out there in the wild, wild Internet I read that "police officers were slow to adapt to wearing seatbelts, and some still don't do it..." Or something like that. What on earth is that even supposed to mean?

I'd get it if wearing a seatbelt was against some unspoken code of badassness in the US police. Weirder things exist in specific environments.