Andy Stumpf
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But that can also be taken too far.
You can become far too callous.
You actually can stop caring.
And at the end of the day,
If you can remember that this is a job and not who you are, you are going to have a life to live with your fiance.
Hopefully you'll have some kids.
You'll have a family.
What do you want to end up being at the end of the day?
A callous, shallow, emotional range individual that has hatred for humanity or somebody that when they are on the job, they're able to clock in and
and be the best version of a police officer in this case, enforcing the laws to the best of their ability, protecting the citizens like you talked about, doing the best you can.
You have access to more information.
Like you said, you get to see the arrest record.
You can see the revolving door of the justice system, which that problem is not going to be solved by law enforcement.
That problem is going to be solved by citizens who have finally had enough
and vote people out or come together and do something that actually changes the system.
You're not going to be able to change that as a law enforcement officer, just for clarity.
So your role in that is to do the best job that you can, unfortunately, until society gets sick enough of this garbage that we can actually come together, put some differences aside,
and do something meaningful about this.
Because until that happens, you are in a place that I felt like I was in a place, looking back now on my military career, where you're looking at a dam.
And just like in a cartoon, there's some leaks that are springing out.