In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 30 May 2020 20:42:50 -0400, Clare Snyder
wrote:

On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:48:10 -0400, Andy
wrote:

On 5/30/2020 6:23 PM, Thomas wrote:
Who have had a bad incident.
If I stole coffee creamer from work i would be history.
I fly blm flag.
We need really outstanding cops and the bad need to go.
Fire every one who is on corrective action today.


You couldn't pay me enough to be a police officer and deal with that ****.

Me either. My nephew, brother-in-law and 2 uncles as well as at least
2 1st cousins were cops. Not sure if being a cop makes some into total
a-holes or if it's the job that attracts them - but from the ones that
fit that description from my small sampling it's the latter. The ones
that ended up being a-hole cops were generally a-hole kids too. The
ones that were decent kids were also, on the whole, decent cops.

Good question. I suppose there is research on this. There certainly
are psychological tests they make them take before hiring them, though
I'm not sure the small departments can afford the tests, Maybe the
state government pays. And I would think you could trick the tests.
They all get to carry guns, they have protection from false arrest suits
(if they had good faith or reasonable suspicion or some such), and they
often have the thin blue line that makes other cops protect them.

When I was 23 I had a girlfriend with a roommate about 23 or 25 and she
would go to parties and sometimes there were cops there and she told
about one. He had his gun on and it bumped against her hip when they
were dancing. Or for some other reason they talked about it. And she
said he said, "Yeah, when I've got this on I know I'm a man."

She was totally turned off.