Scandal At The Met
Jan. 12th, 2014 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloIf the only people we recruited to the police were austere philosophical types with a passion for justice we might have a force that was everything we could wish it to be.
As it is, like any other profession, the police service has to take what it gets. And the nature of the work is such that a lot of bullies, a lot of racists, a lot of right wing authoritarians will be drawn to it and want to get stuck in. Also- as someone said on some thread I was reading- you work in the gutter you get tainted by it. Also there's the thing they call canteen culture- cynical, mucky, intensely tribal.
I suppose what I'm saying is, "What can you expect?"
As it is, like any other profession, the police service has to take what it gets. And the nature of the work is such that a lot of bullies, a lot of racists, a lot of right wing authoritarians will be drawn to it and want to get stuck in. Also- as someone said on some thread I was reading- you work in the gutter you get tainted by it. Also there's the thing they call canteen culture- cynical, mucky, intensely tribal.
I suppose what I'm saying is, "What can you expect?"
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Date: 2014-01-12 08:16 pm (UTC)I think it's inevitable the police are the way they are. Police forces- like armies and political parties- are necessary evils. Civilised living would be impossible- or improbable- without them.