LOL, but I have a suspicion that wouldn’t scale up to Oakland!
That said, I think anybody who takes that job would be an idiot. The bottom line is, no matter how heinous were wrong the suspects are in nearly any situation, you won’t get me support from either the community where the politicians there.
The occupy protests are a perfect example of cops caught between liberal occupiers, city government, and business owners.
They pepper spray the occupiers, the mayor throws a tantrum, then occupiers feel emboldened and trash businesses with police knowing that city government won’t have their backs.
Yes, anyone who takes that job expecting to actually *do* the job would be an idiot. But those whose cynical back-up plan is to scam the system using the union cash machine voters and politicians have stupidly put into place may be on to something.
Increasingly I see life in America as an intelligence test. You can keep on slaving away and paying taxes to support public employee unions and the indolent or you can put your ingenuity to work figuring out ways to survive "off the grid."