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