[ChevyZ28]

I want to take a moment and thank all of my fellow Officers for the thankless job they do. Quite often people hate Officers, at least until someone with a shotgun is kicking down the door. Miraculously, we have suddenly become the greatest group of people on Earth.

[monkeywrench]

" Quite often people hate Officers, at least until someone with a shotgun is kicking down the door."

Unless that "someone with a shotgun" is a cop! :>)

[Tamzee]

I want to take a moment and thank all of my fellow Officers for the thankless job they do.

There... I wanted to add my gratitude as just a plain old citizen :-)

[antaresequity]

Quite often people hate Officers, at least until someone with a shotgun is kicking down the door.

Pull out your 870 and kill that 'someone' with some low velocity buck shot...and when the cops show up...tell me how much you like them...

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but 90% of the cops on my 'beat' are under 30 years of age, sport the commando haircut, tree trunk necks and prefer BDU's with ballistic nylon holsters to a standard cop garb.

The cops are a quasi-military organization, and no more so in small and mid size towns. Its freaking out of control. Just wait until the last of the gray hairs die out.

[fuzzthatwuz]

"Miraculously, we have suddenly become the greatest group of people on Earth."

No miracle here Chevy Z28. "Cops" (peace officers) earn that distinction.

[SauronOfMordor]

Quite often people hate Officers, at least until someone with a shotgun is kicking down the door. Miraculously, we have suddenly become the greatest group of people on Earth.

If somebody with a weapon is kicking in my door, my first response is going to be a few rounds of rifle ammo thru his person, THEN call the cops to take the report. By the time the cops show up, most times the incident is over except for the report writing

[Poohbah]

I want to take a moment and thank all of my fellow Officers for the thankless job they do.

The loudest cop-haters (in person and on the 'Net), in my experience, are those folks who are but one routine traffic stop away from an extended stretch in the Graybar Hilton.

[kildak]

What are the chances of a cop being there when someone with a shotgun is kicking down my door?

[Proud_texan]

A thank you from a civilian as well, I don't know if I'd have the guts to walk up on a car during a routine traffic stop, much less anything else. It's gotta be tough.

I will observe one thing and you can tell me if I'm wrong.

The cops I know and have interacted with are very good people, a far larger percentage than in the world as a whole. However there are some rotten apples, it only stands to reason.

My only observative is that the "cop code" doesn't allow the good guys to rat out (for lack of a better word) the bad guys. Thus the bad guys have to do something really, really bad before they're removed.

Maybe it's that they don't really do anything bad enough to warrent removal or even something else, but I think I see this. Am I off base?

[jsraggmann]

Oh really? That surmises that you or another officer are present in my home. Highly unlikely. I don't depend on police from any jursisdiction local, state, or federal to protect myself or my family. I take care of that myself.