re: #12 palomino

So what if this guy “lost his police career over a single instant”? That’s not some earth shattering tragedy. That’s actually the way it’s supposed to work when a cop screws up egregiously.

Kinda like when a teacher loses their career over a single incident of hitting or fucking a student. Or when a bus driver loses his job over a single incident of on the job drunk driving. Or when an accountant loses their finance career over a single incident of fraud or embezzlement. Or a surgeon loses his medical career over a single incident of operating while high on the same drugs he just used to sedate his patient. The list could go on forever.

Why is it any more “sad” when a cop loses his job? When they fuck up, they can cause a lot of damage; the threshold for losing their jobs shouldn’t be that high.

Seems to me that the author doesn’t see it as a tragedy either. He draws an analogy to the way things work in special forces, where one major screw up is one too many. Some jobs just don’t fit the idea of cutting a guy some serious slack. And the point is that “cop” is one of those.