I saw an episode of COPS once where a police officer pulled over a nurse for a traffic infraction of one kind or another.
The cop talked with her briefly, then let her go on her way. No ticket was issued.
The cop looked at the camera and said something like, “someday I might be injured in the line of duty, and I would not want the nurses who are treating me to be mad at me” (or similar words).
My wife is a retired nurse. I don't know how many times she was pulled over, but the police always let her off. Usually they made comments about how nurses date cops or some other type of come on. I wonder if there wasn't some part in this display of stupidity where in the cop's mind he was impressing someone of the opposite sex in some way.
During my work with the police I saw plenty of stupidity on display, but they could probably say the same of firefighters. And some of the things that I saw nurses and doctors do made firefighters and police seem like absolute geniuses.