I have an extremely pessimistic view of people - deploying to Iraq and Afghanistan will do that - and I've never once thought to myself, "This cop/deputy is totally a rapist."

"generalizing a profession is not the fucking same as generalizing race or gender. One is a choice and the other you have no choice over."

I thought I stumbled onto Jezebel reading this article.

I'm going to use the power of deductive reasoning and take a wild guess: the paid administrative leave is probably a formality involving labor laws and negotiated agreements between the police guild and city.

Honestly: how prevalent do you really think this is?

I've never understood how people generalize a profession - in this instance, police officers - but freak out about gender and ethnic generalizations.

It's rather interesting you decided to omit the very real gender-based education gap in the United States.