August 21, 2002

4:35 PM

The Insider's Guide to Real Policing.It's a job that connects all your favorite pastimes—sitting around, eating, bullying people, writing incomplete sentences. After years of research and development, our investigators have found that policing is the easiest job in the District. from Washington DC's City Paper.
posted by Ty Webb (8 comments total)

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posted by Ty Webb at 4:35 PM on August 21, 2002

Well, policing is an easy job just as teaching is an easy job. Because of the bureacracy in both professions, good performance is not encouraged and poor performance is not discouraged. This means that some will blow off their duties while others will not.

I live in the district and my few encounters with POs have been very positive.
posted by Witold at 4:43 PM on August 21, 2002

Witold, what's with the balanced, informed, mature post?

That's just not we do things around here.
posted by goethean at 4:52 PM on August 21, 2002

That's just not we do things around here.

How did I end up at /.? And when did they change their look and feel? And why are my clothes on backwards?
posted by cortex at 5:20 PM on August 21, 2002

hehehe... goethean... you know that deep inside I hate the pigs. Fight the power man!
posted by Witold at 5:26 PM on August 21, 2002

I worked with MPD, at their headquarters and out at damn near every precinct building. With the exception of a few examples from the chief-level, the work attitudes of the sworn officers are light years ahead of the department's civilians. Take that however you want.
posted by NortonDC at 6:56 PM on August 21, 2002

Living a few blocks from that Mt. Pleasant 7-11, I can attest that it often seems, shall we say, over-policed. Very safe place.
posted by gottabefunky at 7:32 AM on August 22, 2002

Same with the So. Capitol 7-11. It is just crawling with POs day and night.
posted by Witold at 10:39 AM on August 22, 2002