Perhaps a police officer works with a somewhat skewed sample of the poor population in the same way that a TA for a class tends to deal personally with a non-re

Perhaps a police officer works with a somewhat skewed sample of the poor population in the same way that a TA for a class tends to deal personally with a non-representative sample of students from the class. They would both do well to remember the context of their occupation. Not that it would necessarily come from novels, but it's an argument for a general education.