I started getting a little... I dunno... skeptical about the union cop situation after one died in the line of duty here in Tucson a few years ago. He was given the biggest parade you’ve seen in your life, all sorts of things renamed for him, car washes and fundraisers galore, so on.
Those people make plenty of money with plenty for the widows and families. So many people are murdered here in Tucson weekly, and people can barely afford the funeral. No publicity, no fundraisers, no thousands if not hundreds of thousands in benefits, nothing for them.
I’m sorry he died, but there are tons of jobs that are just as dangerous, in my opinion, just perhaps not as glamorous.
Meter readers here, just for example, are attacked by killer bees, bitten by rattlesnakes and scorpions while lifting up meter boxes, chased by rabid dogs, threatened by angry property owners....
Yet we, the general public, hold up these people as some sort of demi-gods.
And now, with the gun-running and the idiot Dipstick’s malicious lies in January, red-light cams monitoring us 24-7 so the cops can sit on their arses even more, now SWAT teams pulling an almost Ruby Ridge, I’m beyond disgusted.
Worse and worse....