These cops are in a war. Can you imagine the mental stress of being a big city cop? I cant. Seems even worse than an infantryman...at least he knows to kill...period. A cop has the added stress of split second decision making. Thoughts of fellow officers wasted and the families left behind. Getting up day after day with the constant mental cycling on and off between family man and city-soldier. In and out of city block sized fields of drugged up madness and walking dead zombies. Never knowing whos the murderer and whos the innocent. Fkd up politicians making his job harder all the time. All for what....maybe $70K/year? No way I could deal with it and stay sane...my idea of sane.
The sanity check is much appreciated.
Worded much better than my reaction to some of the comments.