jmiller, i agree with you, some people look at stuff very strangly and i wish we had more control over what calls we as coppers needed to go to. BELIEVE ME we wouldn't go to at least half. I was sent to change the batteries in an old mans hearing aid once and his son was 5 minutes away. I can not even begin to say how THAT was criminally related, but I got sent anyway.We are taught not to dismiss anything as a threat, no matter how insignificant it may be. In this day and age you just can not chance it, BUT you can still be civil and nice in most cases. We appreciate those of you that respect our service, we really do. It is not often we hear that. Again, I took this gig to help our citizens, no one told us that alot of times we needed to have a cristal ball and be an expert in everything from constitutional law to medicine. Most of us try our best. Hopefully my ramblings made some type of sense.
Amen, not to mention expert on parenting, marriage counseling, expert on civil law questions, everything police and gun related, aliens, ufo's, and pretty much anything else you can think of.