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Taitertots

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12. Nope, you don't get to wave your hand and declare police work incomparablely different

Reply to TipTok (Reply #11)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:57 PM

Jun 2016

The risk to factory workers in heavy industry (at work deaths and serious injury) is higher than for police officers.

It must be nice to mentally categorize personal failures as mere accidents. Not everyone has the luxury of killing people and remaining in the position that they used to kill people. If my decisions intentionally killed people, I'd never work in this field again. If my personal failures killed people, I'd never work in this field again. Why do you think the police should be any different?

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State expert: Unclear whether Freddie Gray had ‘rough ride’ in police van [View all] Calista241 Jun 2016 OP

Law enforcement doing its best to protect itself and shift the blame and pass the buck Feeling the Bern Jun 2016 #1

It is amazing how incompetent the prosecution becomes when the defendant is the police. Vincardog Jun 2016 #2

That ship sailed... TipTok Jun 2016 #6

because we all slide around on a floor and break our necks while riding in a police van. hollysmom Jun 2016 #3

right, and his neck, which was almost completely severed, was caused by magic. Javaman Jun 2016 #4

Mosby is in a bind entirely of her own making... TipTok Jun 2016 #5

I hope these cops never work again. alarimer Jun 2016 #7

If someone died in my factory, I'd never work as an industrial engineer again Taitertots Jun 2016 #8

That's a factory... TipTok Jun 2016 #9

They are comparable. You don't get to wave your hand and declare police work... Taitertots Jun 2016 #10

Steady, regular work with folks inclined to safety... TipTok Jun 2016 #11

Nope, you don't get to wave your hand and declare police work incomparablely different Taitertots Jun 2016 #12

There's that word... TipTok Jun 2016 #13