Proactive or Reactive Cop?

If you had a choice and if you were a cop, would you choose to be a proactive or a reactive cop? Would you want to be there to make sure that nobody even thinks about doing crime; or would want to be there as the crime happens and get to deal with it appropriately?

The thing is that the proactive cop gets no action and gets praise for a crime-free society UNTIL it possibly something happens. The reactive cop gets all the a lot of action and drama and praise for fixing a deadly situation. People could die and there could be harm, but that would be the price to pay!

So? Which is which?

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