A cop's work is never done

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 10:20 AM 5/4/00 -0400, Carl Remick wrote:
>[The article below, from today's Slate, infuriated me.  I posted the 
>following at Slate's "Fray" section in response:  "Re Lucas Miller's 
>comment:  'A cop is a cop 24 hours a day, and even when I'm off duty, I find 
>it difficult to observe drug use nonchalantly.'  I am white, middle-class, 
>and middle-aged, and IMHO the police -- especially in New York City, where I 
>work -- are the absolute scum of the earth.  Det. Miller's comments simply 
>reinforce that opinion.  Other than police work, there is no occupation 
>where sadistic 'D' students are so empowered to shove people around."]

Yep.  That is precisely the biggest problem with the copdom, or at least s
segment thereof - the inablity to separate the office from the oftentimes
sadistic personal.  That is, their inablity of being public officers (where
speration of private and publis is a must) and being zealous vigilantes
instead.  Same for the prosecutors.

Having said, however, that does not mean that the public shoud give up the
public law enforcement offices to those zealots.

wojtek