A couple of years ago, someone (a "Right" Statist) told me a young person I hadn't seen in years was going to become a cop. I didn't react as expected.
I was expected to be happy and supportive, but you know I wasn't.
I didn't say anything directly unpleasant, just expressed concern over someone I care about joining an aggressive gang of thugs. I was berated for my concern. I was told this person was looking to "make something" of herself-- doing something "for the good of society". All the normal statist selling points.
I said that even if a good person becomes a cop, they are no longer a good person once they put on that badge. They can't be. I said I cared about the person and her family too much to support such a tragic choice. I was scoffed at for saying it was a tragic choice.
And I haven't heard from the person who told me that since then. I don't even know if the young person went ahead with it or not. I don't want to know. The answer might make me sad.
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Reminder: I could really use some help.
All police are either ignorant or evil, some are both.
ReplyDeleteI think most are both.
DeleteNo, you are wrong, cops don't start off 'IGNORANT OR EVIL". A Florida teacher wrote a book, "Signal Zero" about his journey from teacher to LEO. He found it was a job that changes a person, and it's hard to resist the change due to world and peer pressure. Many go in with the best of intentions, I did, but if you don't change, it will grind you up and spit you out.
ReplyDeleteHow can "the best of intentions" include working for a paycheck financed by theft ("taxes" and "fines") and committing acts of enforcement-- enforcement of counterfeit "laws"? There are no good cops.
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