We could start a whole new thread with this one. I have heard it said
(My dear deceased daddy was a retired New York police Sgt., and I'm
thinking he knew whereof he spoke) that the main difference between a
really good crook and a really good cop was the choice each made which
side of the badge to stand on.
Jeffrey Kaplan wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:29:13 -0700 Dave Clark said:
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>> Comment:
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>> The inability by many police officers to recount an incident is
>> painfully obvious once any half-decent lawyer gets through with cross-
>> examination. It's a wonder criminals get convicted as often as they do.
>>
>
> Because the criminal is as much a representation of the public at large
> as the jury is.
>
>
--
/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/
