99.9 percent of the time one of them was killed, the prosecutors refused to even try the case!!!

by out of control, raging police?

They don't seem stable enough to do the job.

Clear this crap out of the department.

It is very stressful to go from being the object of blind hero worship to being told you are acting criminally, abusing people and violating human rights.

Just a few months ago they were rarely challenged. Everyone they interacted with, outside victims, thanked them and honored them as first responders. Maybe their were a few bad apples but surely the bunch wasn’t spoiled.

Now some are actually getting charged or fired outright. More people are calling out their crimes and abuses. Even filing false reports isn’t completely safe.

I’m not sure I’d call it a sea change yet, but it’s getting there.

I imagine it is hard to face that you might be a bad person. That shouldn’t qualify you for disability.

You want to feel better? Clean your own house. Don’t tolerate abuse, assaults, murder, falsifying evidence or filing false reports. Trust me you’ll feel a lot better.

For the ones who do those things, charge them or fire them.

criteria for a PTSD diagnosis. Whiny little snowflakes.

They are part of the cycle of trauma in police culture, whether they themselves have engaged in violence or not. One person in the cycle getting help helps everyone. Even acknowledging this flies in the face of the macho mystique in policing (and in serving in the military, even in journalists). Smart police departments get training in trauma--for themselves and to stop inflicting it on others. If there were pre-policing events that led to overreaction and violence, those will come out in treatment.

BUT there's a difference between getting treatment and getting disability benefits. That does sound cynical. I'm going to watch this.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244018794794