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Eh... you hear about good cops pretty constantly, from what I've seen, actually. It's just local level stuff. County paper, regional news station, that kind of thing, and generally not really about main line profession stuff, but initiatives of other sorts (working with kids, doing fundraisers for whatever, helping organize or escort events, and so on).

Even beyond the psych aspects the media goes nuts trying to gag on, I'd rather think a lot of why you don't hear much about cops that get everyone leaving peacefully after de-escalation and that general thrust of things is because it's, y'know. Their job. Supposed to be basic competence. Ostensibly what they're getting paid for, etc., etc.

When it's seriously out of line stuff -- hostage situations, serial killers, and such -- you hear about cops going above and beyond the call of duty (when things go well anyway). When it's not... you don't. The culture's praise for that is the paycheck and slew of privileges the profession provides, so it's kinda' unsurprising you don't see much explicit praise for what could be crudely put as not shitting the bed. It can be a pretty rough bed to keep from shitting on, at times, but it's still more or less what level of behavior is (or at least should be, given the authority and power they're entrusted with) expected.

S'kinda' like how you generally don't get much news about accountants finishing up that week's accounts receivable, or too much about firefighters that put out the nth house fire where no one got hurt and the fire didn't spread.

Culture is something entirely different. Culture says "do the exact opposite of what you've been trained to do and I give you a pass for doing it." I suppose you can put that under the very utilitarian title of "Human Resource Management" but I prefer to call it what it is: corruption.

Naaah, human resource management is what's supposed to take that kind of crap out behind the shed and hit it with things until it stops. Corruption is one of things people screwing it up (either by plain maybe intentional incompetence or not having proper resources to do it right) contributes to.

Get the point you're making, but training or that kind of thing are the primary (mostly) internal tools for making the shit stop. If your culture has reached that point, someone keeping an eye on your organization's members has screwed the pooch. Possibly literally depending on why they're letting folks get away with it.

One of the more... infuriating, I guess? Things about that is that shit not only screws with people's lives, it also fucks a lot of our tax dollars (and/or the money the cops jack from people one way or another, which might as well be the same thing just collected by way of -- often questionably justified -- confiscation) into a hole made of civil litigation.

Makes me wonder what the numbers look like, for reparative and/or punitive civil results vs. however much money isn't being spent on training and human resource management on the cops' part. Dunno about on the net across the whole country, but I'd be real damn unsurprised if there's specific jurisdictions whose skinflint bullshit and subsequent goddamn incompetence is costing the people more than it's saving the precinct.

IRS has joined the Trump investigation.

REV UP THOSE TAX RETURNS

Not just the IRS, mind you, but specifically their financial crimes department-whatsit. They're effectively among the special forces of stateside auditing organizations. If you don't want the IRS paying attention to you, you really don't want that part of it doing so.

You say that right as I found the bastard of a system in a terminology list. Yeah, that, or something like it. There's probably something specific these days I haven't gotten around to noticing, I'unno.

*waggles hand* Honestly, I'm not entirely sure that's necessary slack lack in the supply and not just standard stocking practices (forget the name, but it's where folks have basically no slack, intentionally, to skim greater profits off the logistics and whatnot) biting lots of people in the ass. Have to wait until a ways out and people figuring out what's actually happened in more detail.

Pretty sure the parts of the middle-ish are fine when they're outside tornado alley, too far south for blizzards, and too far north to be summer hellscape. Don't recall them doing much economy/population wise, though. Crime's basically unavoidable region wise but it's usually easy enough (resources allowing) to bugger off out of town and never really get bothered (and/or be able to easily hide the bodies if you are).

Ahahaha. Shit fuck fuck shit. It'd be real nice if potential record matching/breaking wind speeds would go somewhere else. Antarctica maybe. The moon? Sure. Please irma, sod off on out the atmosphere and go bother the moon.

Like, notes it's probably overselling it, but goddamn, let's not follow up historical flooding with historical wind speed.