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You Won’t See Josh’s Story on 60 minutes

Doug Watt
@DougWatt
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When I hear and read the stories from law enforcement officers across the US, my compliments are low-key. "This officer is a competent and good police officer."

My low-key compliment may not seem to be enough praise, but it covers the most violent and tragic incidents. It includes death notifications and the acts of kindness known only to the officer and the recipient of that kindness.

There are both external and internal stresses in law enforcement work. Quality is far more important in policing than quantity. Quantity has become an infection in several professions in America, and law enforcement is no exception.

We live in a world where tolerance is not enough, you must engage in public displays of acceptance.

Josh is a good and competent law enforcement officer in Maine. The citizens of Maine are fortunate to have him as a game warden. That is not enough for some Mainers who are not looking for quality.

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  • Old Bathos@OldBathos

    He could either watch the organization continue into the crapper while his career was unfairly stalled/ended by DEI or maybe get some camos in pride flag colors, demand that he be called by some sexually ambiguous first name (Pat, Ashley, Leslie, Morgan etc) and get a lawyer who threatens to sue if his employer tried to force him to declare a specific sexual identity. That way he might rise up the ladder.

    Ultimately DEI kills whatever it takes over because acknowledging the existence of skills and traits actually relevant to the praxis of the organization is a direct threat to an ethos of promotion by identity and ideology.

  • Doug Watt@DougWatt
    ReplyingtoRandy Weivoda

    Randy Weivoda (View Comment):

    We don’t see much of her these days, but this would be a great post for @ grannydude to weigh in on.

    It might be better to not involve grannydude. This story is not quite the same as the old saying from police officers; "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." This story is the inverse of that saying. In this story you can attribute malice to stupidity.

  • ctlaw@ctlaw
    ReplyingtoDoug Watt

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    It might be better to not involve grannydude. This story is not quite the same as the old saying from police officers; “Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.” This story is the inverse of that saying. In this story you can attribute malice to stupidity.

    I have long said Hanlon's Razor is dead. As stupidity increases, it creates a demand for malice to feed the stupidity. We are at the point where apparent stupidity is usually the use of the stupid by the malicious.

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