>>>True, not everyone wants to be a doctor, mechanic, etc. I really enjoy putting criminals in jail because I think I'm making a difference. Of course, it is probably my father's fault. He was a cop (four uncles too) and I thought he walked on water and breathed under it. Now, I'm a cop and so are my brothers.
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>>I think that must happen a lot with policemen and firefighters - there seems to be a lot of them who's whole families are involved.
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>Kind of makes sense when you think about it. It's really not that different from other professions in a way. Insurance executives' kids often find themselves in insurance, bankers' kids go into banking, musicians' kids become musicians, etc. Parents pass on their value systems and their 'expertise'.

In this case, I think it runs in the families of both sides of the crime business - not only the cops, but also the criminals often take their side as a family business, spanning multiple generations.

BTW, found recently on NewsOfTheWeird that retiring Yakuza members had to produce tatoos and missing fingers to get some retirement from the state, because their industry is notorious for sloppy paperwork.