Regardless of whether she started talking about cops and was talking about Vets who just came back and are cops that is a very low blow as vets have come home from every war to every kind of job imaginable. To insinuate a vet back from war started the riots regardless of job is ludicrous. Frankly, most major cities have cops who are NG, Reserve, and standby reserve, etc. There are six cops who live within a mile radius of me and five are undercover. All are member of military reserves.
Back in the mid-to-late ‘70s, our town hired some Vietnam vets as local cops. I and my friends were stopped in our cars by them more that just a couple of times. It was these cops who just wanted to live their lives as civilians as far away from the jungle as they could. No bombs, no land mines or booby traps to worry about...Their personal night mare was over. Yeah, they’d take our beer, our warm Dr. Grabow smoking pipes and our weed but they never arrested us, impounded our cars or called our parents. Even the schools were very lenient towards casual drug use. Only the worst of the worst (a small handful were into harder drugs like PCP, coke and herion) were ever seriously punished. One thing they did not tolerate was theft of school prooperty. Kids were stealing film projectors, balance scales, shop tools, athletic equipment and they sometimes got the book thrown at them. Some of our local cops seemed to want to steer clear of ruining young lives by initiating charges against teenagers like us and we in turn, tried to steer clear of them. I still remember how they could often be seen in their partol cars sitting alongside the cars filled with some of the hot young chicks in the neighborhood. The girls all seemed to love the cops but to what extent, I have no idea!