My dad who was in the insurance game for many years said that cop cars get wrecked on a very regular basis.

I respect anyone who will do the job but I don't put them on a pedistal. They are just regular people who happen to be equipped with lethal weapons... so when I get pulled over I say yes sir and no sir and offer nothing to rile them. For the time you are sitting there they are judge and jury and the whole deal including executioner if they happen to be inclined that way.

A very small percentage (probably about like the general population as a percentage) have serious mental or other problems which could render them dangerous under the right circumstances.

But most are very very good. In Indiana the best outfit is the Indiana State Police. They are the best trained and best paid. It oddly was a ISP trooper that wrote me the bogus ticket though.

When I was a youngster I delivered the newspaper to a ISP trooper and his family. He was a very nice friendly fellow who said that he had his 62 chebby up over 120 mph about every night chasing down some speeder. He seemed to enjoy them.....'course there was a lot less traffic back then. He and his young wife had a little boy die from Mennengitis IIRC.....that was really a sad deal.

Tom W

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