So, far from being a knee jerk critic of law enforcement, I am probably more sensitive than most civilians about the hazards of the profession. Law enforcement is hazardous not only physically, but also psychologically. It is for this reason that I believe police officers should receive more vacation time than the typical civil service job and more thorough training.
Police work, after all, is a paramilitary profession.
In the military training is constant, and rightly so. Unfortunately, in police work training is minimal at best and serious, ongoing training is the exception, not the rule. Given the demands of the job, it wouldn't be excessive for the average police officer to receive at least one month or more of training per year in addition to generous vacation time in which to recharge their batteries. I am not talking, by the way, about SWAT training. Law enforcement experts who know more about the subject than I do, tell me there is already more than enough of that going on and some of it is quite badly done.