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>I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out. The police normally rotate st
by razakel 9y ago
>I can tell you back in the day when I worked for Rackshack I never envied the abuse department. They always looked stressed out.
The police normally rotate staff on and off the analyst post every few months.
I was speaking to a detective, saying I was interested in going into digital forensics, and he just plainly said "no, you don't want to do that". He said he knew he'd spent too long on the job when he was walking through a park, saw a father playing with his daughter, and instead of thinking "aww" thought "you sick fucker".
I have, in the course of my career, come across child abuse content. Personally it didn't really bother me - I just didn't think about it and got on with the job of notifying the police, but I can easily see how being exposed to that sort of thing day in day out would really mess with someone's head.
- Bluestrike2 9y agoI still remember reading an interview years back with people working at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (I think; it was some time ago) whose job was to identify and track exploited children online. The part that's stuck with me was a remark about an infant whose photos kept popping up and didn't match any missing person reports. They gave the child a name at some point, and could only watch as this child literally grew up through child abuse images, year after year, because they didn't have anything to identify him by. That interview was haunting. I can't imagine how hard it must be, or what kind of toll it takes on you, even if you're able to rotate through to something less stressful after a short period of time.