"One of [the bullies I went to high school with joined the police
force and] became the subject of a huge investigation by the
Mollen Commission"

That's a good thing, isn't it? Isn't that called "justice served".

Backtracking and babbling...

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"(PeteCresswell)" x y.Invalid wrote in message
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Per PAS:
...and Lord knows what happens to cops who
expose the wrongdoing of other cops.

My takeaway from reading the Wambaugh novels is the police do not *hire*
misanthropes.

My neighbor is an nternal Affairs officer with the NYPD. He has some
insight I don't have due to his experience. All kinds of people make it
though the the hiring process and the NYPD is probably the toughest in the
nation. Idiots and bullies still make it through. While being on the job
certainly can change a person due to their having to deal with miserable
excuses for humans, others go into the job with a poor attitude. I recall
two guys I went to high school with. I nver had trouble with them but they
were two of the biggest bullies in the school. They became cops. One of
them became the subject of a huge investigation by the Mollen Commission.


Instead, police work tends to turn normal people into same.

We have/have had two police-type people in our family: a son-in-law, who
is still a cop, and my late brother who was a CID agent in 'Nam and a
private investigator while working his way through college.

In both I see/have seen a significantly dimmer view of human nature than
most other people I know have.
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Pete Cresswell