It affects morale to the extent that over 33 years, I, and I assume others, have found it fun to come to work. If I had to do it all over again, policing is what I would want to do. It's a great job. It's a challenging job, and there's no reason for not being able to enjoy coming to work. We don't necessarily deal with pleasant issues every day, but we choose to do that and it's the nature of the beast. When it gets to a point that you have people saying it's just not fun coming to work any more, it's time to move on.
On February 8th, 2011. See this statement in context.