Maybe don’t give your elite police units cool scary names. The nicknames are going to be bad enough; no reason to encourage people.
“While the heinous actions of a few casts a cloud of dishonor on the title SCORPION…”
Have you read the fable? Did you not think about literally the most famous story about a scorpion?
@bryantd When people spend all of their time and effort building up a mythos that cops are unappreciated besieged soldiers fighting impossible odds, an elite force of military strength, we cannot be surprised when they act as if they're unappreciated besieged soldiers fighting impossible odds, an elite force of military strength.
Rather than, you know, undertrained bullies given the weapons of trained soldiers and a mandate to protect each other.
