The setting is an urban street winding through any city of our nation. A suspect, pursued by police and asked to stop, comes to a halt. The police officer wonders just what will happen in that fraction of a second that the suspect turns to face him. The expectations of police across this country could never be greater than they are today. Police often put themselves in harm's way for the citizens they are sworn to protect.
Police officers are no more or no less than the community itself.
They are citizens who choose to wear a blue uniform instead of a three-piece suit. Men and women whose daily routine includes donning a bullet-resistant vest and strapping a gun to their hip. Holidays and weekends are spent in radio cars and on foot posts answering emergency calls from those who support us, and frankly from those who do not. There is hardly another occupation whose members bear witness to the tragedy of human existence than those who wear a blue uniform and a metal shield. It is often said that police become immune to death, because they are exposed to its horror so often.