if this were about "winning," I would have stopped after my first post, to which you responded all emotionally. I keep having this hope that maybe you will see what I am talking about.
First off, you have agreed with literally none of what I have said, at least not that you have written. You have attempted to make sweeping statements about who I am and what I think, but shown you actually have no clue at all. You also have never taken the stance that I am overall correct, but just not in some instances. You have bemoaned the state of "kids today," and how they are all wusses and delinquents because we can't beat the crap out of them anymore. I am not clever, I am just trying to show you that you are focusing all of your responses based off of your limited personal experience as a corrections officer (a capacity in which you aren't exactly going to be dealing with a cross section representative of today's youth) and some misguided notions that the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
Did if you know that Iowa started trick or treating on Beggar's Night rather than Halloween because the Des Moines area alone was getting 550+ reports of vandalism every Halloween, and Beggar's Night was a way to curb those delinquents? Guess when that was put into effect. The 1940s. So, teen vandalism and rule breaking is a problem that has always existed, but we see these pretty pictures of Norman Rockwell and think that the world is changing. It isn't. Technology and the methods of rebellion are, but not rebellion itself. You are saying that the youth are getting worse and worse and that chokeholds are the panacea to this, but history just doesn't back you up.
Do I have compassion for the cop? I feel badly for him that he was in a job, flying solo, with neither the tools not the temperament for it. I feel bad for him that nobody recognized earlier that he did not have the tools to deal with rebellious children, that nobody saw someone with a history of physical aggression when faced with disobedience may be a bad fit for dealing with troubled, hormonal, rebellious teens. I feel bad for him that his own poor decision making and temper will affect the rest of his life because of the situation in which he was put.
No, I don't think you probably could have written that post for me, because I am fairly sure "panacea" is not in your lexicon.
Do I get to play the game where I say what I think about you? I think you had a very traditional upbringing, probably very strict. I would not be surprised if you had a brief rebellious period. I think that you like to feel like an authority, but either don't communicate as well as you would like, or maybe this is your best - but this desire for authority is why you chose the careers you did. I think you likely were disappointed to find that the inmates don't respond all that well, and resent others for not giving you your "due" - which is why you dislike me, since I am not immediately kissing your *** and taking your word as gospel because you have "lived it." You see me as soft, are certain I have never lived any hardship, correct? Certainly nothing that could make me as world-wizened as you. If that makes you comfortable, if that helps you keep your world ordered, continue thinking it. If you want to think that I hate authority or am just looking to "win" an argument with you, have at it. I can see that it is most comfortable for you to put people and things in boxes with nice labels. I would never want to disrupt that.