Cop Drops Dead into curvecosts 665

Me too. I can see how fire-fighting is much more likely to require physical strength and stamina, but, ironically, it's front-line law enforcement which seems more likely to have to call upon that from day to day!

Certainly even I disagree with starting our cops at $25K, but for me -- and yes, I took the test, too, back like five years ago -- it was the sort of people I'd likely work with (idiot yahoo types who still lived with mommy) and the sort of legal constraints placed (idiot p.c. types who cry "racism" and "brutality" every chance they get).

I doubt these physicals are very strenuous. Even the Army's own entry-level standards are quite laughable -- 42 push-ups from a twenty year-old, for example -- so I can only wonder about the cops'...to judge from the looks of them.

Yes, that's true. I wonder if it's "cultural"...polics forces are "para-military," after all -- but the majority of the ones I know have all the worst of military and civvie combined! They don't have the standards of the military -- walk into ANY precinct and see for yourself -- but they've got more atbreastude than their civilian outlook ("don't rush me") would suggest!

I wonder if it's simply a matter of pay. As it is, you've got everyone from former tradesmen to Ivy League grads working as beat cops.

I think part of the problem is how we equate pay with worth. It's very insidious, this present culture of ours. And I'm not sure what the answer is, especially in the here-and-now.