Quote Originally Posted by FAllout
I want to be a cop.

I also don't want to lock up a man with violent criminals for growing a plant.
Well too bad, when you're a pig you don't get to write the rules. You become the government's bitch, enforcing all the rules that are handed down to you from above. Which means you will be required to violently subdue completely innocent people who aren't harming anybody like pot-smokers and prostitutes, then kidnap them and lock them up in cages.

Sure, stopping rape and murder sounds like a good thing, but you will very rarely actually do that, if ever. Most of your work will probably be catching speeders, drug users/dealers, prostitutes and the like. When you do end up investigating a murder or rape, your job will be to punish people after the crime has already been done instead of actually attacking the root causes of crime (like poverty and social alienation) to prevent such things from happening in the first place. All you'll do is lock up criminals in cages with other violent people in an atmosphere devoid of love and care, so they can become more frustrated and more violent, and then release them back into society again angrier than they started off. Doesn't exactly sound like a good way to fight crime if you ask me.

And of course, you'll only be able to take down the criminals who have no power. When the government wants to rob me of my money through taxes, or steal my weed through unjust legislation, or stockpile weapons of mass destruction designed to murder innocent civilians, you can't do a damn thing about it, and will sometimes even be obligated to participate in the crime.