If the role changes the person, how does it do that? What pressures do police face from the state, society, and capitalism in general that makes them into a worse person?
If the role changes the person, how does it do that? What pressures do police face from the state, society, and capitalism in general that makes them into a worse person?
I work closely with some district cops in the city, mainly asking them to do stuff like welfare checks and tracing people that seem to be lost. I chat with them sometimes and they seem like decent people.
But they are district cops who do just that: minor stuff. They also don’t really like the actual cops. I think the role of an actual police agent is different and you need to 1) have a certain mindset for it and 2) it will only further push you into that mindset.