I have observed a rather disturbing trend over the last few years. I went to St. Lawrence College (SLC) and SLC has a rather popular Police Foundations Program (PHP), so naturally I ran into many PFP students. Now I want to make it clear that I am not talking about all PFP students, however I have yet to meet a single PFP student who I would actually trust with authority and a gun.

In fact I can broaden that statement a bit. I have yet to meet anyone who has volunteered that they want to be a police officer (but isn't a police officer), who I would actually trust with authority and a gun. Now, I know very capable, very trust worthy officers so my trend can't be universal but still, it worries me.

Why bring this up now? Well a new person joined my jiu-jitsu class on Monday and I worked with him quite a yesterday and I have to say, he is a living and breathing amalgamation of every Jean-Claude Van Damme character I have ever seen. It's painful and before he even tells me his name, he tells me this: "I'm training to be a cop." (A timecop, apparently) He then proceeded to act so ridiculous that if I described it you probably wouldn't believe me.

Seriously, we need police officers, not universal soldiers. It's like some people are filming an action movie in their minds and I'm saying that these people should not be allowed to have guns. This might not seem blog worthy but it was a rather surreal experience, it was like spending an hour training with someone trying to be Guile.