| Police are meant to police, as public servants and | | | | when it is the police. |
| officers of the court of whatever municipality one | | | | Domestic violence is an example of the result(s) |
| finds them in. | | | | of abuse in the realm of drugs, no matter what |
| As officers of the court they have the discretion | | | | the drug. It is interesting that statistically over |
| of choice in what to do or not do in any given | | | | fifty per cent of calls to the police are the result |
| situation, in other words the public is at the mercy | | | | of domestic violence due to drug use, and many |
| of the police. Takes a huge amount of restraint | | | | of those calls are from women and at times men |
| to control power of that capacity, especially with | | | | who are married to or otherwise attached to |
| the fact that most policemen and women are | | | | some of our public servants. Of course it is a |
| armed with what some call deadly weapons. | | | | minority of public servants who fall into whatever |
| Given that information hopefully the police are | | | | category fits. |
| unaltered, especially on the job. Personally it is | | | | If these types of situations can be prevented |
| hoped that drug testing is not needed for anyone, | | | | with the use of testing, then it serves the greater |
| though it is a bit unrealistic when considering the | | | | good, although it can be and is fooled by those |
| fact that most people at some time in their lives | | | | who expect to be tested, so who is fooling who, |
| drink or experiment with drugs. There is no | | | | more importantly who is fooling themselves? |
| distinction between drugs and alcohol, many seem | | | | Delusion is rampant in our so called highly tolerant |
| to forget that alcohol is a drug, and drugs can be | | | | society of supposedly more intelligent people than |
| addictive, especially when used from an early age. | | | | in past years. It is dangerous to believe and |
| Of course there are exceptions in defining | | | | accept everything at face value, especially in the |
| addiction. | | | | realm of human behavior, even more so in |
| If anyone uses drugs to excess or debilitation, it is | | | | respect to public servants. In other words |
| usually known by observation, yet if a tolerance | | | | hopefully all public servants are just that, servants |
| has been built up it is not difficult to be what can | | | | to the public, yet many are only servants to |
| be called a functioning drunk, or addict, whichever | | | | themselves and whatever drug of choice they |
| fits. Functioning alcoholics or drug addicts as public | | | | use. |
| servants is a contradiction in terms, especially | | | | |