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by screen glare » Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:52 am
Steve, you are correct. LL 101 is almost always posting a link to something having to do with the men and women who serve as police officers. And it’s almost always negative. Whenever I quickly peruse his/her posts the words police or cops are almost always in the text. And because I know it’s a “me against the world” bit - it’s just something to which I have no motivation to respond. I agree there are racist Americans who are police officers - but racists, bigots, etc. are in every walk of life. Most police officers do not harbor these extreme feelings.
I will add however that anyone who has a daily job that features the risk of violent death at the hands of another, and/or the responsibility of life or death decisions, or the sights of a lot of death - should be in regular psychological therapy. Paid for by the employer. Because that is trauma. And it WILL change a person in various harmful ways including clinical depression, PTSD, etc. When one is saturated with trauma and gets no healthy relief or guided “time outs” in which to process traumatic events one can become hardened, jaded, angry, suicidal, etc.
All emergency services members including doctors and nurses should be provided regular mandatory psychological therapy.