Fucking Cops

[justin]

I just see what they go through. What their family goes through. And when I see a group that get attention for deeds as such and then the generalization that are tagged to cops as a whole it eats at me. They have their ways of couping mainly fucked up humor but they stick together and are there to help their brothers and sisters get through the bad side of things that come with the job. They have to. Sure progressive structures that help are always a good thing. Just the tearing down society seems to commonly do isn't fair.

[JesusHChrist]

And another example of out of control cops, only in this case, it cost them $.

http://www.aclum.org/news_3.27.12

Read the attitudes expressed by the police in that write-up. They think they can step on citizen's rights with impunity.

[Minimalist]

Many years ago, my neighbor was a psychologist and one of his clients was the county PD. His job was to do personality testing on police recruits.
One day he asked me if I would read a proposal for a paper he was thinking of writing and wanted a non-specialists opinion.

The gist of the hypothesis had to do with the prevalence of alcoholism, divorce and suicide among police officers. His idea was that it was not the job itself which led to these conditions but that a certain personality type tended to be drawn to police work. In effect, had these people become firemen or garbagemen or teachers they would still have been alcoholics, lousy husbands and suicidal. The allure of police work was the inherent power as an attraction to rigid personalities, as he called it.

I said something like "interesting but how will you prove it?" It was at that point that he told me that he routinely washed out about 1/3 of the recruits because of psychological instability, BUT. That was because of the rules he was forced to follow which required him to only wash out the ones who demonstrated current psychological problems. Had he been allowed to use discretion about what might develop he would have washed out more than half.

This was well before the internet and I don't know if he ever published the paper. Maybe I'll go looking around the web.

[wwjs]

The problem is that a lot of them have PTSD. Responding to fatal accidents, knowing that you may see your kid for the last time before some gang banger shoots you and negative opinion from anti-police cunts definitely has some impact on them.

[Minimalist]

Then they should quit if they can't hack it. I don't want some stressed out cocksucker walking around with a badge and gun looking to shoot people because he has psychological issues.

[wwjs]

Yeah, especially if it's so easy to find a new job.

[Minimalist]

So the mayhem left in their wake means nothing to you?

[wwjs]

Would you leave a job while having to feed your family and not knowing when or if you'll find a new job?

[Rahul]

Would you leave a job while having to feed your family and not knowing when or if you'll find a new job?

You can always interview for, and be offered a new job before quiting.

I've actually tried this method. Turns out to work pretty nicely.

The general manager at my current job worked as a cop for 6 years. Finally he had enough and just quit without even looking for a new job. He describes some crazy things he experienced. He told me the worst was coming up on a wreck and not being able to do anything for the victims except stand there until the paramedics showed up. You couldn't even touch them in case of spinal injuries you might aggravate. He just felt helpless while waiting.

[CleanShavenJesus]

Would you leave a job while having to feed your family and not knowing when or if you'll find a new job?

For one thing, it shouldn't be voluntary. So they shouldn't have the choice of leaving the job themselves.