WARPED POLICE PERSPECTIVE

"Merely by being involved in drug investigations on a regular basis, it is
in your mind that you may be confronted by a suspect at some point either
on or off duty." - Capt. Ed Mayer, Jackson County Sheriff's Department.

Finally, an admission that justifies those who share the widespread feeling
that the primary mental state of the average narc squad member is simple
paranoia. The scary event of a JACNET officer firing his weapon at three
unarmed men is just another example of the warped perspective that develops
among the members of any "special" squad over time. Convinced of both their
own perfection and everyone else's evil, they feel justified in making up
the rules as they go because they are "special."

We need to return drug investigations to the general detective pool so that
this inevitable corruption does not occur.

Laird Funk, Williams