But shadowrunners are the bad guys, that’s what’s bothering me. And no one whose gone through any kind of police training can escape that line of thought. To a cop’s mind all people can be lumped into three simple categories: cops, civilians, and scumbags. A simple breakdown, with no exceptions. Oh sure, the "civilian" classification tends to drift a bit. When a cadet first leaves the Academy, all fired up and eager, naive and green, he might tend to rate civilians as right up there, almost as admirable and worthy of attention as cops. That doesn’t last long, though, and soon civilians drop way down the scale to rest only a few notches above scumbags. Some cops—the real hard-bitten and cynical ones—don’t even bother making the distinction. If you ain’t a cop, you ain’t drek, and that’s all she wrote.