In the city of New York, the police pride themselves on not being a police force, but a police service. Talk to any bedrock cop. Reach down through the layers of why he wanted to become a police officer, and you'll find that the great majority puts service first, before pay, benefits or power. That goes for almost any police force throughout the country. Easy to malign these days, and not so easy to praise as the weight of the crime grass is hard to sustain. But above all, a cop is human, and that works on both sides of the line...