Tough job to do

[Cunt]

It's certainly a knotty issue that consistently resists a simple solution.

Not only that, twenty years after doing your level best, a judge may well be looking back to see (according to a new standard) how good a job you did.

When I worked with people, a historic case walked in to our office, in the form of investigating officers. My boss had been a worker over a decade earlier, and there had been a sexual assault.

At the time, it was handled internally, and poorly. Soon after, the police did their investigation, and somehow it wasn't done well enough either.

This whole mess festered and blew up so long after the fact, that some of the principals forgot, while others were retraumatized as if it all just happened again.

I have a lot of respect for those willing to work in this field today. It's such a challenge to continue to examine these issues, and they really come up so rarely, you don't always know when the important ones come up.

I think waiting for someone to ask about it can be a good benchmark, but I worry a bit about some of the eager people-pleasers I have known.