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Aren't cops by default public figures? They're the de facto face of the police for the ordinary citizen, not sure they should be the type of individual who cries because someone calls them fat, lesbian or whatever. These people have the legal right to essentially execute you in public, I think we should set the bar a bit higher on who should be allowed to be a police officer in the first place.

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I was raised by LEOs. My mother and all four of her husbands were career long LEOs in the South.

Of course this is just based on my anecdotes, but LEOs have some of the thinnest skin imaginable. The first time I fought a grown man was when I was 13 and I had to fight my mother's fourth husband. He was a Deputy Sheriff and combat veteran and that dude had the emotional strength of a 12 year old girl who didn't get asked to the winter dance.

It seems the job selects for those types. I suppose people interested in law enforcement / justice that aren't that way either end up as lawyers or working for the FBI or something.

If you don't have any kind of marketable skills yet want to make a decent living with plenty of benefits, becoming a LEO is the easiest choice for most people.

Or if you don't have any marketable skills yet have a spouse that has a job with health benefits, you can become a real estate agent.

Those two career paths seem to be the most chosen for almost all of the 'not so bright' folks I grew up with.

Other way around, right? Those types select that job. You're weak but you want to appear powerful, so...

It's a use it or lose it skill. When you carry a badge and gun around and can bark orders at people all day and they have to comply or face the infinite violence you can summon with your radio your skin will grow thin over time.

Power corrupts, or some half baked version of that.

>My mother and all four of her husbands were career long LEOs

how many of them physically abused her? the stats say 3 out of 4 did.

Only one abused her that I’m aware of, but I know she abused two of her husbands. She was a very violent lady.

She shot my biological father when I was 14 months old.

This is a career that quite literally selects for "not too smart" [1]

1 - https://www.wirthlawoffice.com/tulsa-attorney-blog/2013/07/c...

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