College education has almost nothing to do with this. It teaches most people nothing about this subject.
I'm actually somewhat surprised that more people don't learn how to properly not attract the attention of cops while in college.
College campuses are full of cause-less traffic stops that escalate into full on searches, money (fines) to be made from underage drinking and drugs all of which increase people's contact with law enforcement. Pretty much everyone at knows someone who's been mistreated in a petty way by the cops or done something dumb and then compounded it by playing straight into their tactics or not STUFing. College provides ample opportunity to experience or become aware of fairly tame instances of many of the things we as a society don't like about law enforcement.
You have to have your head firmly buried in the sand to not at least learn a little bit about how to conduct one's self during an interaction with law enforcement.
College definitely has something to do with it --for all the reasons you just rattled off. We get fucked once on, say, a misdemeanor, and then we learn this FUCK out of how to handle cops. And a fed is just a cop with better shoes.
I'm saying that despite that environment the number of college educated people who don't know to STFU is low enough that the impact of college is negligible.
