[Peach]

I'd heard that. If I were them, with the back up they are getting from the city and the state, for the pay they make, its a job that's not worth it.

I don't know. NYC cops could have said the same thing; they didn't walk off the job.

Not to minimize the job facing NO cops, but we're forgetting what those early days were like after 9/11. Shifting buildings and danger. Smoke. Dust. Digging at rubble with bare hands. Constant evac orders because of either buildings crumbling or new terrorist threats. The intense heat from the rubble.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The NY cops weren't being shot at with no backup, either.