Uh well my mom's a nurse and they work GOD AWFUL shifts longer than that "up since 5am" bs. And guess what, when a nurse is so tired he/she is about to pass out and accidentally injects too much of a drug or the wrong drug and the patient gets injured or dies, that's the end of a career right there. And then there's lawsuits. Same shit if one of us had to work double shifts at our jobs and fell asleep behind the wheel and killed someone on the highway. We'd be arrested by the police and charged with manslaughter.

Look, I'm all for law enforcement, we need it to stop the real threats in society, theft, rape, murder, etc. If someone is breakin into my house, believe me the first thing I do will be to call the police and I'm sure they'll be there. But cops aren't ALL heroes and they certaintly aren't the most underpaid and selfless people in the world. Cops are just people, some of them are good, some of them are bad, most are in between.

My only gripe is that many cops in our region have the tendency to enforce the letter of the law to increase county revenue rather than the spirit of the law which is to look out for general welfare. If someone is DUI then take them to jail, but if someone has 25% tint and an aftermarket exhaust, how is that really harming anyone? And no don't give me that "well that's the law just follow it" line, cuz if we all lived like that we'd all be going 55mph on the beltway and cops would drive the speed limit too.