While it is very true that working with bad people day after day can make one jaded, one must still effort to be professional.
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True, but I know that nobody’s perfect, and I know that people slip every now and then. It’s easy to hold someone to a very high standard, while I’m sitting here in my comfy chair, in the air conditioning listening to pretty music.
Yep, true.
Being a cop is a rough job. I know that it is a job that I personally could not handle. I have a temper. I get pissed off too easily sometimes.
Anyone who wants to become a cop should know that they are going to see a lot, have to put up with a lot, and they are going to need to remain as professional as possible through it all.
Like I said though, I don’t think this man should be fired, but he was out of line. He let his professionalism slide in an encounter that really had no reason to cause such a slip. Some amount of discipline is in order here.
I mean look, if I am driving along and I make a mistake...
A number of years ago, I was in the hospital for a week with hyperglycemia, I almost died from that. i came back the next day to pay them, and when I left I went down the street to an area I was not familiar with, and in my stupor I ran a stop sign that I did not see.
Now no one saw this mistake, but if a cop had then pulled me over and rushed my car and told me he was going to blow a hole in my skull, I probably would have had a heart attack on the spot, because I was really frail at the time.
What the cop did this time in this encounter was too much.