[Courts and Criminals by Arthur Train]@TWC D-Link bookCourts and Criminals CHAPTER V 9/30
You are absolutely in his power--unless you hire another detective to watch HIM.
Consequently there is no class in the world where the temptation to dishonesty is greater than among detectives.
This, too, is, I fancy, the reason that the evidence of the police detective is received with so much suspicion by jurymen--they know that the only way for him to retain his position is by making a record and getting convictions, and hence they are always looking for jobs and frame-ups.
If a police detective doesn't make arrests and send a man to jail every once in a while there is no conclusive way for his superiors to be sure he isn't loafing. There are a very large number of persons who go into the detective business for the same reason that others enter the ministry--they can't make a living at anything else, Provided he has squint eyes and a dark complexion, almost anybody feels that he is qualified to unravel the tangled threads of crime.
The first resource of the superannuated or discharged police detective is to start an agency.
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