Note to the "ladder of force left"

[Carl Remick]

>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>That's OK.  The NYPD are all heroes now anyway.  Funny, all it took
>>was to film them in slo-mo with the flag rippling in the background
>>(emoticon of some sort here).
>
>Some of them did run into a burning building to try to save people
>and died for it, you know. Not as many cops as firefighters did, and
>cops do a lot of nasty stuff and firefighters do almost none, but it
>wasn't just the slo-mo that made them "heroes."
>
>Doug

Hmm, the flag's rippling here, too.  But your point is well taken, of 
course.  I remember a passage from Studs Terkel's Working (I believe it 
was), where a cop talks about the difficulty of cutting down the body of a 
suicide-by-hanging and having trouble avoiding the maggots that were 
dropping all over him from the long-dead corpse.  I recall Terkel summed it 
up by saying cops do jobs that most of us wouldn't do for any amount of 
money.  That said, I think police always bear close watching.

Carl

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