Please log in or join the editorial collective . This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted. To put on that uniform and badge, to be subject to and assent to Police Culture, robs one of self-honor. I hesitate to even consider that a cop has a functional conscience, with all the bullshit that he is forced to believe and act upon.
Cops are by and large ornery and defensive.
That is probably because their culture requires them to be suspicious of civil society. He is ordered around in a hierarchy even more rigid than is found within the military. There is no honor when oneself cannot be free. Cops are not free people. It has been said that trying to reason with a cop is like talking to a brick wall.