I wouldn't live there if you payed me, and certainly never with a family.
Side note, did you hear about the cop who was going to testify against the PD and ended up dead? The PD there is corrupt as fuck.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gtt...
Among other things, they would carry BB guns to plant if they happened to shoot someone.
Video Appears to Show Baltimore Police Officer Planting Drugs
https://nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/baltimore-police-video-dru...
> The fabricating-evidence charge is a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine. Misconduct in office is a common-law offense, which means that the court is free to impose any penalty that does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.
> Prosecutors said the video prompted them to drop more than 110 cases involving the three officers in the video from Pinheiro’s camera.
That's 110 people who either were innocent and terrorized by the police, or were guilty and escaped justice due to police incompetency. Either way, not a good look.
Prosecutor in this case the same State's Attorney Mosby who tried (and failed miserably) the Freddie Gray manslaughter/murder case.
To play devil's advocate: If you're going to reason that way, you should also consider the number of actual criminals who were punished only because of planted evidence.
I'm not advocating corruption - I still think it probably warrants the death penalty due to its cancerous and widespread impact on innocent people.
We shouldn't have to revisit that decision on the merits just because some police officer who disagrees with it unilaterally breached the social contract. We should just punish him. Severely.
It sounds like you're suggesting that ethical reasoning done by previous generations is somehow binding on future debates, almost like some form of case law.
> As a society, we've already chosen that we'd rather see a perpetrator walk free than imprisoned without proper evidence.
I wonder if you're failing to make a distinction between what people will say in public vs. their private thoughts on the matter.
He's a much stronger man than I. I wouldn't have lasted a week.
In any case, I really don't miss it. Some of my days were so insane that I realized at some point that I seemed to be subconsciously wiping my memory of it at the end of the day. Even as a founder trying to launch a startup, my craziest days paled in comparison.
Not saying my experience is anything like separating a conjoined twins or dealing with pediatric cancer, but just that I can relate to your thankfulness of having a job that's not that intense, by any measure.