Your fourth point is silly. None of the other workers are routinely expected to place their lives and well-being on the line to protect or serve other citizens.
Actually, risking their lives serving other people is very much what garbagemen, farmers and fishermen do. As for cops protecting other citizens, the highest priority to cops (after their pensions) is cop safety. Cops have and will let citizens bleed to death rather than risk their own life. Cops have no legal obligation to protect citizens and their unions have gone to court to establish that fact. Cops rarely stop crimes in progress and they almost never protect victims of crime. The do show up after people are robbed, raped or killed.
One thing cops are very good at, and you’ve demonstrated it well, is getting indignant at the folks that expect them to work for taxpayers.
And lastly, the worst part of being a cop is probably the requirement to be even-handed while serving rude illogical persons like you who have unreasonable expectations and a sense of entitlement.
Coming from a public employee whose coworkers are among the worst abusers of pensions, including ginned up disabilities, it’s pretty rich that you say that I have a sense of entitlement.
I’m not the one threatening the public with more crime if cops don’t get more pay, better benefits, and lifetime job security.
