Listen, I will try my best to write this as clearly as possible, and sum up my feelings on cops.
I grew up in an upper middle class household, to very good parents who taught me to respect others, etc etc. I grew up in a liberal town, and definitely have a part of me that is very strong with the "bleeding heart" mentality. I would also characterize one of my greatest attributes as skill with people. With any kind of person. Emotional and mental stability so as to interact with others. I work in a larger, inner city hospital Emergency Room, as I have been doing for close to 8 years. I work very closely with the dregs of society. Our hospital actually carries the contract for all the prisons in our central state area. Of couse, in the ER we are close with fire and PD because we see them so often. I am threatened often, we go on lockdown once a night, and we have bulletproof autolocking doors and windows. Our "security" are cops. I literally can feel myself pushed to the edge nightly with the people I interact with. Do you understand this? I am a stable, reliable, smart young guy. And it can become too much for me to handle.
If you understood the unabashed pieces of shit we have roaming our streets you would understand why being a cop is so hard. I promise you, the addicts, criminals, lowlifes, and just generally bad people that exist out there make a cops just damn near impossible. There is no perfect humans. Mistakes happen, and there are cops that break the rules. Thats been established. If you think you could do it, I promise you, you would fall down in some other area that we expect cops to be so understanding in. Want to be completely by the book? Forget ever writing someone a warning or having a college kid pour out his beer. Want to make a difference? Forget trying to teach an inner city kid a lesson after being stabbed by the previous one.
I have this feeling that most of you live in wealthy towns, and the only interaction you have with police are the rich town cops that pull you over and smell your weed filled cars. This is not fair. Their job is minutely different than the regular cops out there just trying to keep things on an even keel. They can end up being dicks because all they do all day is pull over drunk real housewives and stoned rich kids for speeding. Remember that all the heavy work is being done in a dangerous and thankless environment.
Whatever im losing steam here.
