It'd be humorous if it wasn't so sad.
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:55:03 -0400 J Messeder said:
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>> I regularly re-write police reports. I agree completely with the
>> writer here who mentioned the apparent lack of professionalism exhibited
>> many of those reports. It's just plain sloppy, and makes me hope the
>> reporting officers take more care of the other tools of their trade.
>>
>
> Anecdote: My mother was a Boston cop. Her last assignment, in the
> late '80s, was at the Police Academy teaching the recruits how to fill
> out the various reports and logs used by the department. Her running
> "joke" about the job was that she was teaching English to Boston high
> school graduates because she quickly discovered that over half of the
> recruits each class did not have the language skills to write a
> coherent description of an incident.
>
>
--
/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
