Question the answers (Faith and Policing Edition)

Faith and policing | Andrew Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:

The point of quoting this is not that his arguments are convincing, but that they are so very personal, and open about the process by which people come to believe, or to pray. Good policemen are interested in people. The job must be impossible, or deeply corrupting, otherwise. Even more than journalists, police are in a job where almost everyone they meet will lie to them, and where much of what they discover is repulsive. They believe in behaviour, not in ideas.

On the surface, the article is a warm-hearted read about peaceful Christian communities. (And the faith being shined here is specifically Christian.) However, it basically reduces to: police like to police people who share their culture and values. Hardly surprising or unexpected.