Why is it that, more than ever, a large percentage of police is incapacitated?

I believe that crime rates - particularly violent crime rates - have increased. Many people blame this on legal procedures.

I blame it on the change in police recruitment criteria, where educational levels and equal opportunity considerations take precedence.

I believe that these very good officers are not strong enough - physically and emotionally - to handle wave after wave of abuse.

There is a place for these intellectual types but it is not up front.

The police department is like a footy team. There are thinkers and playmakers and the up-front brutes. You wouldn't place a winger in the front row or vice versa.

I say there is a part of police work where size, power and attitude would reduce the number of injuries to the police, whether physical or mental.

- Carl Stevenson, Dora Creek