Police work is not all glory and gain. An often thankless position of being damned if we do and double damned if we don't, a police officer is expected to respond to each call for assistance with vigor. We are expected to contend with the lowest conditions of human life expeditiously, yet compassionately, while maintaining hope for the future. It is expected that we can brilliantly maneuver through the muck and mire of society and not get any on us but, hard as we may try, we are never completely able to do this. In addition to skirting public ire, we compete with colleagues whose only claim...