[Mr 5 0]

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I don't think $50,000. is unjustified for a job that can have you killed at any given traffic stop or domestic disturbance so I can't begrudge that salary and taxpayers must not mind paying it, either.

As for comparing bankers and policmen killed; how many dead bankers were shot to death by the people they dealt with?

As I said, for all the power it conveys, being a cop is a crappy job. Aside from the risk to your life, you have to deal with the worst of society most of the time and people are either intimidated by you or hate your guts and would kill you if they could get away with it.

Not a career choice I would make, just to give out some traffic tickets and act tough once in awhile or to have a police car to take home. Not for 50 large per annum, either. There are other ways to make money that don't put you in the worst neighborhoods at night or subject you to very possible death as part of your eight hours.

Still, cops do volunteer for the duty and most love it or at least feel a loyalty to the force that few others can understand. We clearly need cops and for most of us, they may be annoying sometimes but they are very necessary - and underappreciated - just because they write traffic tickets. The least part of what they do but the one that most of us have to deal with sooner or later and this seems to form the basis for our often low opinions of cops. Too bad.