"Public employees" ?.....I wish. If that were true then they would be employed at the publics will. That would mean that there would be citizen oversight of the job they are doing, and those that don't meet the public standard would be fired.

They'd be less likely to kill, taze and beat the citizens and more lkely to actually serve us.

Instead they spend untold thousands doing undercover Barista stings and getting happy endings at the massage parlor.