I always think about the cop who arrested the man who ate a victim’s face off! Some situations are just plain horrifying. I think of how much courage it takes to do the job.
One of my neighbors is a former Detroit cop who was transferred here after being targeted by gangs. Not a year after his transfer we closed our police department and he gave up being a cop rather than going to another larger city where he would spend every day worrying about his family.
He says its a whole different world. In Detroit he was taught to consider everyone to be armed and a potential threat. Here he found that everyone is armed and no one is a threat.
He didn’t arrest the hungry man, he shot him. Because the man wouldn’t step away from the buffet table.