Originally Posted by kane

While I agree that you can't hold humans to a higher standard the humans are capable of, you can be diligent in finding a person with the right temperament and mentality to do a specific job. You would never hire a guy who says he hates the outdoors and physical activity to be construction worker. The same goes for cops. I am friends with and happen to know a lot of cops and 95% of them are good people who do their job well and actually do have other people's well being and safety in mind even when they are dealing with mopes that they have arrested a dozen times. However, there are some that the power corrupts and there are others that overreact. In many cases the overreaction comes from fear and a lack of training.

What makes it all worse is that once you become a cop, it is hard to get fired. One of my friends has outright told his superiors that there are two officers in his department that he will not work with because they can't be trusted. If things go bad they react badly to them. Several people in the department have said the same about these two. The department's reaction? Put those two together. So instead of getting them more training, putting them in a different job or just firing them, they teamed up two scared, incompetent cops. That is recipe for disaster.