All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right he turns legit.
Confronted with the choice the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.