Before we met, my fiance went on a date with a cop. He spent the whole date telling her how him and his friends (including firefighters) like go out and get trashed and go bar hoping (driving around) and no one ever says anything because "We are the boys in blue and can do whatever we want!" She ended that date pretty quick and has hated the saying "boys in blue" from then on.

One thing I'd like to point out, is that even though everyone on here has 10 bad cop stories to their 1 or 2 good cop stories, whenever the police do something great, we as a whole community, don't skimp on the compliments of jobs well done. Sometimes it's hard to remember with 10 to 1 odds, but I haven't seen a thread yet where a good cop doing good cop things was trashed or even not celebrated and bragged on.

Threads like this can get carried away with people all trying to one up each other with their bad cop stories (like I just did), but I wanted to make sure and point out that good cops are always praised when the opportunity arises.