Agree completely. It's one reason I'm weary of the police. What for them is just the daily grind, not unlike fixing a software bug is for many in this audience, is for others very possibly negatively life-impacting or even negatively life-changing.
I have to imagine it's all too easy to let routine and normalcy blunt consideration of the impacts of that routine or allow you to ignore the responsibility that such power over others rightfully demands.
To be clear, I'm not necessarily talking about an individual officer carrying out assigned duties (though it may all still largely apply)... I'm really speaking about low and mid-level policy decisions that are just out-of-press-scrutiny... the indifference of a bureaucracy to the power it wields over others but to which society simply doesn't care enough to make a stink.
I have to imagine it's all too easy to let routine and normalcy blunt consideration of the impacts of that routine or allow you to ignore the responsibility that such power over others rightfully demands.
To be clear, I'm not necessarily talking about an individual officer carrying out assigned duties (though it may all still largely apply)... I'm really speaking about low and mid-level policy decisions that are just out-of-press-scrutiny... the indifference of a bureaucracy to the power it wields over others but to which society simply doesn't care enough to make a stink.