an article title "can you legislate respect for the police?"

The government can try to force people to #Respect others but it will not work

Respect must be earned, not forced.

In my conversations with many people in government, which includes, legislators, executive, judicial, police, and military; I have not yet found a single person who swore an oath the the US Constitution who actually properly comprehends the force that oath caries. 

Nearly every government person who #swore that #oath will near-instantly tell a person who admits that they did not know a certain law existed; "Ignorance of the law is no excuse for violating it". 

So what is all their excuses for violating #TheSupremeLawOfTheLand that appears in Article 6 of The Constitution for the United States of America?

#Ignorance

They will nearly all tell you that they are not required to know whether or not a law or order violates the Constitution; they are supposed to merely obey or enforce. The do not give a damn how many years you must fight it in court, if you can afford to; so long as they get their paycheck.

Government officials are a long ways away from actually #EARNING the respect from the people.

If the police actually enforced #TheRuleOfLaw they would fight to get all unconstitutional laws repealed. The Rule of Law is not merely enforcing unconstitutional laws to bolster the governments purse.