The police are man-whores. Who signs their checks, controls their jobs is all important, never mind who actually pays - the tax payer. They were never hired for their high IQ or independent thinking, in fact both are strikes against them ever being hired after personality and intelligence tests reveal those undesirable traits. The thin blue line is a joke, they are putty in the hands of Communists after being shown that they are expendable in Dem run cities.