Louisville officer sues WHAS personality Terry Meiners for slander

When you make this like any other job you create a dangerous situation, if everyone begins to approach this like a factory job or a sales job then you would see an immediate rise in officers killed or assaulted. I am not saying there are not SOME that behave this way but we should strive to make them the minority in the very least. In "normal" jobs ones role tends to become self serving. People seldom work for the good of the organization or the "team" and almost definitely not the guy in the next office down.

Law enforcement is inherently different.

It is a statistical fact that the chances of an officer getting killed or assaulted goes down 73% when a second officer comes on scene. This greatly enhances the dynamic you are referring to as "the brotherhood". We have to take care of each other. We must go home. In few other domestic occupations are you so commonly faced with the threat of not completing a shift as a result of homicide. When we start to treat this like a routine job our brothers will take longer lunches, listen to the radio less when it does not involve them, make far less effort to be that extra unit on scene or be a fraction less vigilant when being someones "cover" officer.

I am not saying unity is rampant or morale doesn't have its down cycles but your rhetoric that this is the same as a TARC driver is asinine. The fact that you ask "Why is it so important on the PD?" makes me pray that you are not of that mindset and actively working as someones partner. If you think for one second we are not engaged in a form of combat then I have to believe you are out of touch. I simply cling to the hope that you are a civilian perusing this site and are speaking about something you do not fully comprehend.

Please try to obtain a copy of one of Lt Col Dave Grossman's lectures given on modern law enforcement and attempt to gain some perspective.