It's been my experience that those who make the decision to be co-opted into providing for public safety are leaving one life and making a definitive decision to leave that life, and there are huge costs around that. They know better than anybody else the impact that leaving that life has on all of us. Anecdotally, when they choose to leave, they're recognizing the wrongs that they've been doing in that life or the wrongs that that type of life has inflicted on everybody else. They're looking for, and here I don't want to use the words “retribution” or “payback”, but accountability.
On March 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.