Early on, most of them are cops because they needed a job and one as a cop was there.
If you delve into the statistics you will learn that about 80% quit before they have completed a 4th year.
Those that get by that point (and another smaller but similar one in the 7th year) will tell you that huge drop off is because the ones that left police work weren't "dedicated enough" or that the job is "too demanding".
But if you check closer, you learn that almost all those that leave in those early years did so as soon as they found another job that would let them live at least as well and would let them have any kind of promising future.
Ask them and they generally offer pat responses, not wanting to be cast in that bucket of failures due to being lazy or insufficiently dedicated and certainly not wanting to loose the ire of the strange club they have left.
If you can get them to actually speak of what they were thinking when they left police work, it has little or nothing to do with dedication or how hard the work is, instead they explain that, in order to be accepted by fellow police, it is necessary to place being a cop above any other thing in life, including family and religion, and having to live with a code that amounts to acceptance that cops can and should violate any law or principle that fails to cover up for other cops, whatever they have done, and demands that one believe that it is the rightful position of cops in society to "punish" without the order of a court or any sort of proof or wrongdoing or even any legally sanctioned proceeding, including making up for the "mistakes" when courts and technical things declare a person they have called guilty no to be.
MOST people can't long stand living those sorts of lies and start looking for a way out early on. This filtering out of people with "weak stomachs" or "too liberal" politics, the "squeamish ones that think too much and can't or won't kick ass and take names", leaves us with a not too psychologically sound average social responsibility in control of OUR police.
The good ones mostly found a way to quit before they couldn't.
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Police Lieutenant in Taser Case Commits Suicide
By Christine Hauser October 2, 2008, Updated, 10:05 a.m. | A New York City police lieutenant who gave the order to fire a Taser stun gun at a man who then fell to his death in Brooklyn committed suicide at Floyd Bennett Field early on Thursday, law enforcement officials said. The lieutenant, Michael W. Pigott, a 21-year veteran of the force, had been placed on modified assignment without his gun and badge after he gave the order to a sergeant to fire the Taser at a Bedford-Stuyvesant man, Iman Morales. Mr. Morales, naked and with apparent signs of emotional disturbance, fell to his death from a building ledge after an officer shot him with the Taser, at the instruction of Lieutenant Pigott. Mr. Morales had been yelling at passers-by and swinging a long light bulb tube at officers before he fell. Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said in a statement: Upon behalf of all of the members of the New York City Police Department, I extend deepest condolences to the family and friends of Lt. Michael W. Pigott who served with dedication for 21 years. In the aftermath of Mr. Morales’s death, the department announced that the use of the Taser appeared to have violated departmental rules, and a new commander of the Emergency Service Unit was named. Mr. Kelly also emphasized the need for additional training. Asked about the development on Thursday morning, the chief spokesman for the police department, Paul J. Browne, said only: “A New York City police lieutenant was killed this morning apparently as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The identification is being withheld pending family notification.” Later, Mr. Kelly issued a statement acknowledging that the lieutenant was in fact Lieutenant Pigott, and Mr. Browne provided details about what happened early this morning. He said that Lieutenant Pigott went to Floyd Bennett Field alone, early in the morning, and entered a locker room, where he gained access to a weapon that was not his: a 9-millimeter Glock. Then, he shot himself in the head, Mr. Browne said. His body was discovered in the locker room by a service member who was coming on duty at about 6 a.m. Following the death of Mr. Morales, Lieutenant Pigott had been on desk duty with Fleet Services, which handles the Police Department’s vehicles.
-------------------- It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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