This triggers me!

Disagree. It's not forced servitude and they have no obligation to protect greater society. They signed up for it and they can leave it anytime. If and when someone reaches this point, it's time to hang it up for their own safety and ours. Reaching this point happens everyday in corporate America and nobody bats an eye because cops are special heroes to be placed on a pedestal at all times. There are dozens of other jobs with higher major injury or death rates. Go thank a Lumberjack for your house.

She wants our thanks? F you lady. It's called a job and one that requires the very minimum of credentials to perform. You did nothing special to get to your station lady - you took the easy way out to get a full gubmint pension and qualified immunity from the very laws you were hired to uphold. You do it to be paid money to live and eat. Our thanks are not required in this transaction - as that is what are tax dollars are for. Something Evo wouldn't know about.