grey-magazine.com: Social Issues: A Woman in Uniform
eine anonyme nypd-polizistin über ihren job:
Sometimes I feel like a cog in some obscene apparatus that few people understand and no one can control, a punch-card in theTuring Machine of big money and institutional racism and human misery.
Sometimes I just feel like a bureaucrat—a yellowing, servile bean-counter straight out of something by Gogol, scurrying around a crumbling provincial office having sold his soul for a pension.
But sometimes I feel like what perhaps I really am, a small person in polyester blends doing a maddening, vital, impossible job. One person among thousands of others, many of whom I love and respect, who you might even respect, if you met them.
dieser nicht allzu lange artikel zeigt, die widersprüchlichkeiten des polizei-jobs — aber vor allem die widersprüchlichkeit mit der wir selbst die polizei, bzw. polizisten und polizistinnen wahrnehmen. um einiges packender und berührender als das eine ganze staffel true detective vermag. /bei kottke gefunden.