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Originally Posted by brokenprism
We've come a long way from neighborhood cops in blue to legions of troopers, with thigh rigs and tinted visors, in black. Some day it's going to be important that we can tell a cop from a DHS soldier. At least I hope it will be important.
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I'm with you there, I'm a current Crim student. For awhile I wanted to be a Fed. I wanted to arrest "real criminals". More recently, as I've been interacting with members of law enforcement at many levels, I'm starting to see the need for the local "beat" cop, and the necessity of the civil, day-to-day, "community policing". That's what I want to be now, the kind of man we were taught police were when we were little kids. Not a quasi-military authority figure, but a proper public servant.