Queen's Quarterly, June 22nd, 2000
Police work provides a skewed -- if not positively warped -- outlook on the human pageant. A cop assessing civic life on the basis of professional experience is rather like a doctor assessing the physical health of society on the basis of an intensive care ward. From the cops' vantage point, life is a repetitive tragedy of victimization and suffering. They must look dead-on at everything that instinct and common decency tell the rest of us to turn away from: misery and gore, shame and cruelty, loss and abuse; weakness in all its creative deformities and clever disguises. They march resolutel...
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