Cops must habitually make terrible civilian friends...
But I'm kinda with Smoke on this one. Just because cops experience is unique, it doesn't make them exceptional. To say that cops have cornered the market on dealing with the shady side of society or the trauma of crime, and therefore can't be understood by "civilians" is both self-serving and disingenuous.
It's self serving because the whole "you wouldn't understand" opens doors to behavior that is unacceptable to "civilians"..
It's disingenuous because police work is only one of many professions that deal with emotional and physical trauma on a regular basis.
At the end of the day, a person is either a good judge of character who is sociable and can create lasting friendships or they're not. To say that civilians by and large make terrible friends is both ignorant and wrong.
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