Old Gator you surprise me. You are usually very good at making witty, sound arguments without including personal attacks. What happened here?

Most public servants do put their asses on the line. Police Officers, Firefighters, EMS, and Military personnel we all recognize. We tend to overlook the others. Postal Employees have been killed from bombings and anthrax attacks. Teachers come under regular attack in school shootings. Politicians need Secret Service protection and/or Bodyguards (Isn’t it the anniversary of Gabby Gifford’s shooting?). Judges get bomb and death threat for their rulings. The list goes on.

Isn’t it time we stop vilifying our public servants.

By the way, the J Berardi I know happens to have done a tour in Iraq serving in our Military. He has done his part to keep ALL of our blowhard asses intact. Thank you.

Perhaps in the future you should avail yourself of the strategy of keeping your mouth shut, figuratively speaking, and having people only think your an imbecile?

I do hope all you idiots who have nothing good to say about cops never need one. “Most” cops are like “most” people – however, there are, in any random sampling of law officers, most likely a lower percentage of total blind ungrateful schmucks than in a random sampling of this thread.

Makes you gag? Because someone doesn’t respect police officers? They work for us, you know.

http://www.republicmagazine.com/news/atrocity-in-californias-kern-county-deputy-runs-down-pedestrians-police-arrest-grieving-relatives.html

“According to Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, “it may be months before an investigation determines exactly what happened Friday night when a sheriff’s deputy hit and killed two pedestrians in Oildale.” Police who responded to the incident took the deputy to the hospital — and arrested grieving relatives on the scene.
Daniel Hiler ran out of gas during an evening motorcycle ride in Oildale, California on December 16. While walking his bike to a gas station, the twenty-year-old father of two ran into a family friend named Chrystal Jolley. The pair was crossing a street at a widely-recognized intersection when they were fatally blindsided by a vehicle traveling at a speed well in excess of the posted speed limit. Despite the fact that darkness had descended, the driver hadn’t turned on his headlights. The victims were killed instantly.
Within minutes, police swarmed the scene, and arrests were made — none of which involved the driver, Deputy John Swearengin of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. The four people arrested were relatives of the victims, who got into what the Sheriff’s Office described as an “altercation” with California Highway Patrol officers when they attempted to identify the victims.”

Sure logic reason, .. where do you think that is going to get you around here?

I can’t help but feel like someone who enlisted in a job for public service like the police should be given some amount of benefit of the doubt. If we are all going to scream about “innocent until proven guilty” for Jeff Freakin Bagwell, maybe some folks around here could offer the same courtesy to a person in a real-life situation.