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originally quoted by Lasereth
I can hardly see how one state trooper fucking up can mean that the thousands of police personnel in the world are falling apart or whatever. I used to place a negative aura around police until I started working for the department. I'm not an officer, but I deal directly with them everyday and it's not possible to imagine what bullshit they deal with every single day. HUNDREDS of police reports coming in everyday, dozens of domestic violence cases, homicides, false alarms, drug busts everyday and they never get a break. Their job is to FIX what's wrong with our country and it's an uphill battle that can't be won.
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ditto.
It does get tiresome to read yet another post about how bad the police are and how good it would be if the public just policed themselves.
The assumption here is that putting a gun into someone's possession must automatically make that person into a force of rightiousness. Forget the training that the police officer has with regard the use of force. Forget that the police officer has to deal with highly emotional situations with the worst 5% of the population every work shift. And forget that hundreds of complaints are handled by the police with professionalism and compassion
every day. Let's put that gun, that authority to use deadly force, into the hands of the average person and hope that that will solve crime.
The article posted by dk shows that even a highly trained individual with the mandate to keep the peace can still make a bad call and people are harmed. It only helps to strengthen the idea that law enforcement should be a profession, not a hobby.
dk, get off the soapbox and purpose a viable alternative. Angry rhetoric is not a solution.