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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Cops like to attribute this to stress on the job. If that were truly the case, wouldn't we see, say, air traffic controllers beating the hell out of their wives, children, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and anyone else that got in their way? Hell, a lot of us have stressful jobs, and we manage not to beat our wives and kids when we get home.
Cops also like to attribute some of their misbehavior to the dangers of police work. Well, sorry, but police work in the U.S. doesn't even make the top ten "most dangerous jobs". It falls well behind things like construction and commercial fishing.
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Jeff, Im not gonna get into this a whole lot, but I'm gonna address a couple of things...
Im sure plenty of people including you may have stressful jobs. But, other then those serving in the military, How many people do you think have seen or dealt with their co workers being killed by the hands of another in the course of thier job.....I'm not not talking car accidents, but murdered, shot in the face point ****ing blank, shot and killed on a T-stop, shot and killed going into a backyard after burglary suspect, even shot and killed entering a house serving a warrant. I could mention numerous other instances of co-workers who were shot and not killed.
Tell me Jeff, How many funerals have you gone to under those circumstances. Seriously, I can't tell you off the top of my head how many I've attended under those circumstances...People that I know and worked with.... Mike Gagen(TED) on this board was an Air Traffic Controller, stressful job for sure, but how many of his co-workers been murdered, how many have yours? I'm not making excuses for domestic violence or misbehavior by officers, those officers should be dealt with. But I don't appreciate you or anyone else dismissing the real stress and dangers that officers deal with. Of course the ones who do this, don't do this job....
I seriously doubt, that no matter how stressful your job is or most peoples job is, that they look in the mirror everyday when they are getting dressed and ask themselves if this will be the day that someone will try to kill me......
Of course, there will be some people on this board that think I'm being dramatic, but there are quite a few who know that thats the truth.