[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Take a look at those faces. Take a long hard look. Think of them and their families. These are just a couple of the 72 police officers that lost their lives saving others on September 11. These are the brave men and women who gave their lives. These are men and women who would have saved YOUR life if given the chance. They weren't eating donoughts and looking for seatbelts that weren't fastened. They were making sure that other people could live in the face of terror.

None of these men or women pictured ever went home. They are all dead. Think about them the next time you say that cops are on the take and tell me if you would get up every morning knowing you could die saving a stranger.

[eno_]

So what is in poorer taste:

People like me making fun of donut fed cops?

Or people like you using the memory of heros to obscure the fact that most police work is revenue raising traffic stops, some of which invovles the cops literally being pimped out by their departments to the LIDAR company they are splitting the revenue with, and that most fatalities among cops come from stepping backward into traffic while being pimped out to the LIDAR company to make your quota?

There are real reasons cops deserve respect. The problem is there are MANY MANY reasons they piss away the respect they should be getting. And who's fault is that?

[Pern]

True, the cops that died in the WTC were true heros, but they were doing their job. No one made them go. Of course it's a tragedy that so many families are without their loved ones. That's not the point of me posting this article. I posted it to point out the double-standards that we have to put up with. In America there is supposed to be 'Equality under the Law'. That should apply to ALL citizens, not an upperclass of politicians and their protectors, Law Enforcement Officers.

Like I've stated on many posts, one rule applies to all. Once there is an established 'Upper Class' that thinks it can rule ordinary citizens, where will the atrocities stop? And easy answer, they won't.

[Pern]

Also, I've served 8 years in the US Navy, so in essence for 8 years I did wake up every morning knowing that I could be called out to the latest trouble spot and put my life on the line to defend this country. Which did happen during DS/DS in 1991. I spent 8 month's in the desert and aboard ships in the Persian Gulf, waiting for a Scud missle to drop through my tent or an Exocet to sink the ship I was on. I've 'walked a mile in their shoes.'

[Sandy]

They are all dead...

...which is exactly why they have absolutely nothing to do with this thread. Doh.

[Poohbah]

It's been my experience that those who show such malice towards ALL cops are generally those who are only one casual LEO encounter away from being Spike's woman cellmate.

[gunshy]

Oh please. More civilians are killed in simple traffic stops than are cops killed in California. I have no problem offering my sympathies when police are killed in the line of duty, but I refuse to give all cops a pass for the evils that they visit on the populace in the name of law and order. There are a lot of bad guys out there and some of them are wearing a badge.