The End of Tact and Gun Teams?

Is it worth being the community's bitch? Because that's what you will be:

• After another weekend when children were among dozens of shooting victims in Chicago, police Superintendent David Brown repeatedly asked for more time Monday to deploy his strategy of “community policing on steroids” to bring down the nearly unprecedented level of violence.
  
  Unlike at past Monday news conferences, Brown did not hurl insults at gunmen or complain that not enough people are being locked up. Instead, he once again insisted that the drug trade is the “pipeline to the criminal justice system” and doubled down on his belief that community outreach is a solution.
  
  Brown noted that a specialized unit he announced last week would both respond to flare-ups and perform service work in neighborhoods. He also wants cops on tactical and gun teams doing community service every day, and said he believes in street outreach and violence-interruption efforts.

There are unions that are paid good money to do "service" work.

There are SWAP programs for low level offenders to pay off parts of their sentences in the communities that they trash.

There are volunteer and church groups to do "outreach" to the less fortunate.

In fact, hundreds of cops do outreach volunteering with their local churches and community groups....off duty.

We are supposed to be trained professionals tasked with enforcing the law, pursuing law breakers, investigating violent crimes and putting people in jail/prison.

But since cops are already marriage counselors, psychiatrists, mediators, paramedics and father-figures.....

Jeans aren't worth it, Brownie doesn't like teams and the political infrastructure wants to degrade you. Why bother?