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@Bobby_Dids
I've been lucky enough to have relatively few official dealings with the law. I have seen a few mates and colleagues join the police. My guess is that the majority of aspiring police officers have honorable intentions and believe that they can do good, certainly the guys I knew did. I watched them join, train and get on the beat. Then I watched them harden, some becoming cynical and narrow minded. I don't think it's because they are cunts, but (without getting out of my depth) that they might be responding to their environment. It's shit being a copper, everyone wants a piece of you and your day to day life may be filled with peril, certainly a shit load of abuse. I think it would take a fucking saint to maintain their principles in such conditions.
There's a few jobs that everyone should experience for a day in my view: cleaning public shithouses and being a copper in a city centre for a night.
The Duvel has spoken. I'm off to bed.