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MadHound

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Wed Jan-19-05 10:57 AM
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29. The major problem I see with police today is their mindset.

I remember when the cops, for the most part, took the notion that they were public servants seriously. Now, for the most part, their mindset is more orientated towards the conviction that they are the guards of an open air asylum, and that they barely have the edge on the inmates. Very much an "us against the world" way of thinking. My cousin is a police officer, and we have talked much on this. He also remembers this, and laments the passing of the time when police were supposed to "protect and serve".

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