[ansel12]

Unfortunately cops are human. They get frustrated, scared, pissed, and sad, just like anybody else. You can ask them to be superheroes, but the fact is, they can’t be. They see too much garbage, negativity, hostility, disappointment and abuse to stay above it all. Show me a 20 year cop and I will show you a burnt out human. No one sets out to do evil, but **** happens.

But not at work, in uniform.

When you are at work you have to behave in a certain way, you cannot indulge your inner weaknesses and dark impulses, especially if you are a policeman.

[WriteOn]

That’s sort of fuzzy though, isn’t it? Where’s the boundary on a punch or a kick in the aftermath of a struggle with someone who just scared the shit out of you in a grapple? You play Monday morning QB on that. I won’t unless it is way over the top.