Word: stressful
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...didn't want to deal with the stress," he said. "A lot of people finish it the night before--they don't factor in the problems that could happen...
Many cops on the street charge that they are being asked to do more with less; just getting the equipment they need requires a major bureaucratic struggle. "A car that breaks down while you're pursuing a suspect? That's stress. A gun that may not work? That's stress," says John Johnston, a 20- year veteran of the Los Angeles police department. The criminals, he takes in stride: "Dealing with bad guys is why I became a cop. What gets you down is the bureaucracy." In his office in the L.A.P.D.'s Northeast division, which includes the grimiest stretch...
Just as punishing to police morale is the problem of punishment: it is common for officers to risk their lives arresting suspects whom they meet again on the streets within days. "That's the main stress" Seattle Detective Nathan Janes says, "like the fact that the violent criminal doesn't even go to jail." He recalls a thug who attacked a fellow officer a few years ago, wrestled his gun away, jammed it under the officer's bulletproof vest and tried to fire. "He wanted to kill him, but the cop got his hand in between the hammer...
...best, being a police officer places terrific stress on a family," says Harvey Schlossberg, the former director of psychological services for the New York City police department and a 20-year veteran himself. Cops "tend to feel very uncomfortable outside the company of other police officers," he observes. "They tend to be very clannish." The hypervigilance that keeps them alive on the street is hard to shed once they're home."It's as if you become a cop 24 hours a day," says the ex-husband of a New Mexico cop. "That's the way you treat everyone -- commanding...
Malone is right. It's definitely a positive step to stress other aspects of Harvard in addition to diversity. For all of its lofty connotations, diversity is simply the existence of differences. These differences, while often beneficial, don't in and of themselves make Harvard unique among institutions of higher learning. Diversity must be combined with distinction in order to form a more accurate and compelling picture of Harvard...