I have a tattoo.
Having 47 is a little different.
Not saying you can judge a person by them...just caught me off guard, a cop having so many.
I have none...but unless I'm mistaken the typical Marine has more than a few. How would you judge such a Marine?
It hasn’t been that long since tattoos on a women meant ‘rough trade.’ Now, we’re lucky if they don’t have full sleeves. Of course, I’m so old I remember when men didn’t wear ear rings, too...
One of the talk shows I listen to has a prison psychologist as a frequent guest.
In the course of her career she would do psyche evals on police department applicants to weed out the sadists, the ones with control and rage issues, the ones with narcissistic personalities, she was horrified to find that many of the people she utterly failed were hired anyway. Many, not just a few MANY.
Dad and granddad were on the force, he’s a friend of the mayor, the local alderman owes him a favor, etc., etc., etc...
Sometimes the person who should never ever ever be trusted with authority over any of his fellows humans would simply apply elsewhere where the screening wasn’t as diligent.
These guys and gals need to be weeded out.