My pal is the most honorable person I've ever met, and in twelve years of hanging around the station, barbeques at the chief's home, giving lectures to groups of cops and such, I've only met one or two that I would consider @ssholes. The rest have been ordinary joes and janes who struggle to raise families and make ends meet just like the rest of us.
The difference is that they go out there every day put their @sses on the line to protect sniveling worms like the people who bitch about them.
Since my friend has a take home car I've been with him for traffic stops, accidents, lost dogs, fatalities, truck wrecks and his own mother's heart attack and eventual death (we followed the ambulance to the hospital). And each time I stood back marvelling at how anyone would do this for so little pay and so much risk.
But there's a lot to be said for travelling 50 MPH backward, siren blaring and lights flashing. It's a rush.
I salute my pal and your husband and all of the underpaid and underappreciated cops of all sizes and shapes out there.
If there is a shooting in the street, a police officer will be seen running into danger while the militia wannabes scamper away in terror.