When the Lord was creating peace officers, He was into his sixth day of overtime.
An angel appeared and said, "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one."
And the Lord said,"Have you ever read the specs on this order? A peace officer
has to be able to run five miles through alleys in the dark, scale walls, and enter
homes the health inspector wouldn't touch and not wrinkle his uniform. He has to
be able to sit in an undercover car all day on a stake out, cover a homicide scene
that night, canvass the neighborhood for witnesses and testify in court the next day.
He has to be in top physical condition at all times, running on black coffee and
half-eaten meals. And has to have six pairs of hands."
The angel shook her head slowly and said, "Six pairs of hands, no way."
"It's not the hands that are causing me all the problems," said the Lord,"it's the
three pairs of eyes an officer has to have."
"Thats the standard model?" asked the angel.
The lord nodded. "One pair that sees through a bulge on a pocket before he
asks,'May I see what's in there, sir?' (when he already knows and wishes he
had taken that accounting job.) Another pair here in the side of his head for
his partner's safety. And another pair of eyes here in the front that can look
reassuringly at a bleeding victim and say,'you'll be alright ma'am,' when he
knows it isn't so."
"Lord," said the angel, touching his sleeve,"rest and work on this tomorrow."
"I can't," responded the Lord,"I already have a model that can talk a 250
pound drunk into a patrol car without incident and feed a family of five on
a civil service paycheck."
The angel circled the model of the peace officer very slowly. "Can it think,"
she inquired.
"You bet," declared the Lord with pride. "It can tell you the elements of a
hundred crimes; recite Miranda warnings in its sleep; detain, investigate,
search and arrest a gang member in the street in less time than it takes
five learned judges to debate the legality of the stop, and still keeps a sense
of humor. This officer also has phenomenal personality control. He can
deal with crime scenes painted in hell, coax a confession from a child
abuser, comfort a murder victim's family and then read in the daily paper
how law enforcement isn't sensitive to the rights of criminal suspects."
Finally the angel bent over and ran her finger across the cheek of the peace
officer, "There's a leak," she pronounced. "I told you that you were trying
to put too much into this model."
"Thats not a leak," said the Lord,"it's a tear."
"What's the tear for," asked the angel.
"It's for bottled-up emotions, for fallen comrades, for commitment to that funny
piece of cloth called the American flag, and for justice."
"You're a genius," proclaimed the angel.
The Lord looked somber. "I didn't put it there," He said.
I can't begin to tell you how many times I got myself into a situation I was not sure I'd walk away from. I talked to the Man upstairs so many times I often felt I had a direct line to Him. He was always there though.....the line was never busy.
God bless and, thanks.
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"It confuses me how some people can vigorously go against the 2nd. Amendment and still call themselves patriotic"-me
When God made peace officers 
