my next door neighbor growing up had the most insane case of little man syndrome you've ever seen, plus sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies. he worshipped a&m, and his life's dream was to become a member of the vaunted aggy corp of cadets. his psycho parents fed into this kid's psycho tendencies by constantly weaponizing him throughout the years, making sure that every birthday and christmas he got a gaggle of new toys with which to set fire to things and murder animals. the guy seriously shot his brother's cat in the head with a real bow and arrow when he was in like 5th grade, and they just continued to give the little psycho more weapons- knives, swords, chinese throwing stars, stakes, spikes, you name it. I once saw him grab a gold fish out of their koi pond, douse it in lighter fluid, stab it to death with a garden spike, and then cheer and celebrate. this kid was the poster child for the triangle of sociopathy/future serial killer warning signs. guess what he does for a living now?
yep. this psycho has been climbing the ranks at HPD for I want to say almost 15 years now, if not more. he started at the bottom, worked his way up to sargent, and is now quite high up within the homeland security division of HPD. i would say that this is frightening, and that it's only a matter of time before he kills someone, except that he already has killed someone, years ago, with a brand new shotgun that his idiot parents had bought him as a christmas gift. i mean you just knew he couldn't wait to use it, right? he got a report of a burglary, showed up to the scene, saw a teenager running out of the house and just blasted him right there on the front porch, no questions asked. kid died right there. that was over a decade ago, and yet the guy hasn't stopped climbing the ranks.
Police are not special people, and in fact in my experience it is not uncommon at all for police forces around this area, the south, and even the country in general to be populated more by these types of of lifetime losers who just want a taste of power than they are by people who meet even the most basic standards of reason, empathy, and logic. they are not heroes, and in fact they far more often appear to be bullied kids who've grown up to be Legal Bullies with the Blue Shield protecting them more than they ever protect any of us. fuck cops, and fuck anyone who's still out here talking about "back the blue."