It's those same "retarted military wannbe's or dickhead's that never got over being great in high school" who are also preserving the peace in your neighborhood and preventing all the criminals in town from going on a rampage.
Don't forget that when you excercise your freedom of speech to call them names. You live the peaceful life you do, in large part, because the police are on duty in your city. If not for the police, there would be roving gangs of retards who never even graduated from high school knocking down the door on your house to come in and help themselves.
When a policeman gets out of line, he should be taken to task for it, but give credit where credit is due. The police are out there protecting the peace, and they are laying their own lives on the line to do it. As far as I'm concerned, a little gratitude is in order.
Wait, we
have cops....thousands and thousands of them. And roving gangs of retards who never graduated high school ARE knocking down doors, coming into homes and helping themselves.
While I don't agree that all cops are wannabes, thugs or whatever insult seems hip and inflammatory, we need to remember that cops rarely keep us safe..they don't protect us; they find and apprehend the people who harm us or our property
after the fact. There is a big difference between security and justice. Deterrence and after-the-fact pursuit.
Fuck gratitude. They get a salary to provide a service. There's risk, sure. But there's risk in working at a bank, liquor store or deliver pizza. There's risk in going out at night, driving, working, having a vagina or, in far too many cases, being a law abiding citizen unlucky enough to be down range of a cop with an unholstered Glock.
Have you ever
ordered a
pizza? I bet the only "gratitude" you paid him was a customary buck or two. Only an asshole would ask that you view them as a hero or be thankful for their career choice.