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If we go away, they go away. They are like a vampire's shadow. Invisible reflections in darkness. Thought parasites.
The FBI is a soup sandwich at the top and has been. Most of the rank-and-file are pretty legit LEO inside. Some are full of themselves and ignored by the legits.
State and local LEO are 99% just good guys who hate bad guys. The mason thing in LE ran its course by about the 80's at the latest. There might be a few little depts up in the NE, but in a huge agency I'm VERY familiar with, I couldn't name ONE mason. Out of thousands. They weren't weeded out, or sought out. It just wasn't a thing. I'm sure some were, but nothing like a club even. I hate to break it to you, but most LEOs are just like everybody else, trying to make a living, raise a family, put up with whatever the administration and middle management wants today, and go home in one piece.
Some folks make TV shows about it and others invent fantasies, but it's just a job. One that is both boring AF, exciting AF, and dangerous AF.
>and others invent fantasies