Integrity?

If you've ever known anyone trying to get into the RCMP, you'll know how rigorous their screening is. Lie detectors and interview upon interview. Some people I know that would make great cops don't get in simply because they either gave information they probably should've left out or they didn't give information that the lie detector picked up.

It's absolutely appauling that this mountie in Vancouver keeps his job with 12 days less pay for being so unruly. In case you've missed the story, he drove with 2x the legal limit, threw a rock at a bus and verbally attacked the driver, and had a known criminal as a friend (that had picked up a undercover police officer posing as a prostitute and brought her back to his house).
The argument goes that he can still do his job and his personal life off the clock is something different. If that's the case, then why the rigorous screening?

Bill Clinton probably opened the door to this in the most public way back in the Monica Lewinsky days. Gordon Campbell pleaded the same case in the drinking driving scandal. And people in public and private life do it all the time.

When does a person's personal integrity start to mean something? We cannot be people that say one thing and do another. Add to that, people in authority. Teachers, doctors, pastors, RCMP officers, parents, grandparents, elders - basically anyone with authority - should gain and lose respect not just by how they teach but also how they LIVE. 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus talk to pastors about this but it's everyone! "Do as I say but not as I do" shouldn't cut it.