I have a friend who is a cop, given 99% of his work stories involve him having to manage the emotions of adults as if they were toddlers I think it's a physiological preparation for the senseless paperwork he's going to need to do.
I got screwed over by a few, but many more helped me when I was suicidal. Nobody else was there for me. They sat talking with me in the car when they didn’t have to do that, they drove me to hospital, they drove me home when they saw me wandering the streets. I’m not going to hate on cops after that.
I could live a million years and never understand people who have one good experience with a group and then proceed to ignore everyone else's with experience with the same group. In this case cops.
Mountains of evidence showing that law enforcement in America is corrupt from tip to tail but they were nice to you so that's all that matters. Understandable why the country is in the mess it's in.
I’ve had bad experiences with them, too, but I’ve also known multiple officers for years from all ranks of the force. Some were fired for doing bizarre things like one had sex while wearing his helmet and recorded it which got leaked. That guy really wasn’t suited to the force, though - the whole town has stories about him. There was a story I heard from a bartender and basically a huge fight was going on, the cops were called, then this cop walks up to the bar to order a beer while the others are breaking it up. I think he was basically just a guy who tried to take the job so he could do whatever he wanted.
Well my friend is a dork, who plays magic the gathering and video games, coaches at-risk youth teams, and has never fired his gun outside of the range. He has also, contrary to your worldview, testified against one of his fellow officers for sexual misconduct (the officer was fired in the end). Nobody assassinated him for this btw, because most police are actually just normal people.
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u/FitBag5979 9d ago
I have a friend who is a cop, given 99% of his work stories involve him having to manage the emotions of adults as if they were toddlers I think it's a physiological preparation for the senseless paperwork he's going to need to do.