A couple of points I was only lightly getting to. What kind of person is attracted to, as they say, enforcing reams of minutia? Most cop work is boring. Who likes this? What kind of person keeps at it? In order for a normal person to stay with such a dis-system, they are required to shut down their active thinking. So, by and large you end up with a labor force of nitwit automaton, whom thinking is actually detrimental to ones employment, and in fact independent judgment forbidden. This of course requires ever more detailed rules. The system becomes a captive of itself. My cousins husband is a electrical engineer. He put in some low voltage lighting around his pool. The electrical code enforcer wanted him to drag 110 power to with in 7 feet of the pool. He had put the transformer at the house and run 12 volt out. It was crazy. The husband new the theory and practice and it made even common sense, but the code officer said the code is the code. He said otherwise some one would run extension cords, which could still be done. But this is how the clerks protect themselves. Don’t think. Don’t make judgment. Follow rules. If there is no rule, stop all activity until rules are, or are not issued. Wait for retirement, pension and then death.
“Don’t think. Don’t make judgment. Follow rules. If there is no rule, stop all activity until rules are, or are not issued. Wait for retirement, pension and then death.”
This kind of thinking is infecting our military big time too.