NCWayne: I'm pretty much on your side here. While I respect and appreciate LEO and recognize that theirs is a thankless and no-win situation, I believe that they (or a not-so-small number of their members) have brought much of their problems upon themselves. I get irritated by the cop shows on TV which tend to overplay the risk factor, and which constantly promote and glorify the "Blue Code" by which policemen come to regard themselves as a species separate and apart from the rest of us. When a cop gets shot, no other business of the police force has anything near the same urgency.
Local TV news goes above and beyond in their coverage of a cop killing, from the time of death to their final rites--which become enormously elaborate--at taxpayer expense--with motorcades of dozens, even hundreds, of police vehicles escorting the fallen officer to his final repose. In my town even the fire department gets involved, using ladder trucks to suspend a huge garrison flag over the motorcade route.
While I really don't begrudge these gestures, I do resent that it fosters an impression that a cop's life is worth much more than any other life that is lost. My ladyfriend's son died in a car accident; it got two paragraphs in the local paper and an obit. A policemen was killed by a vehicle while standing beside the road writing a ticket. He got the whole treatment: TV reporters interviewing friends and family, the flags at half mast, the black badge bands, three dozen police cars and motorcycles, the flag suspended over the road, a handgun volley at graveside, presentation of flag to widow, and a bugler blowing Taps.
I dunno. At some point you just have to say "Really?"
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