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When I was growing up, my mom always had this thing about the cops.

And I don't know if she knew she was like transmitting that thing to me.

Several of her friends died after random encounters with the police.

One was shot by the police.

One died in police custody mysteriously.

So I got the message from a very young age that the police were these agents of chaos.

And basically anything was on the table if they were around and wanted to escalate a situation.

But even still, I grew up with mad toy police cars as a kid.

I watched countless kids shows with cops as the heroes.

So on the one hand, the police were, again, these agents of chaos, but they were also

the good guys, right?

When you have a child of your own, like I did not too long ago, you start to pay even

closer attention to the lessons and messages you got from your own parents and think about which ones you want to pass down and which ones you definitely don't.

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