[Anderkent]

I'm sorry, but have you been to a dispatch room? I spent a day with in a sherriffs department once and then had went on a ridealong - there's no 'loitering around', arranging a half an hour's break for dinner was difficult.

[corin_]

Both you and the person you are replying to have taken personal anecdotes and expanded them out to decide that America has either too few or too many cops.

[jessaustin]

Oh, no. Both of us already knew the truth. The anecdotes are just for color.