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WHEN GOD MADE POLICE OFFICERS...

When the Lord was creating police 
	officers, he was into his sixth day of 
	working overtime when an angel appeared and 
	said, You sure are doing a lot of fiddling 
	around on this one.
	
	 And the Lord said, Have you read the 
	specs on this order?
	
	 A police officer has to be able to run 
	five miles through alleys in the dark, 
	scale walls, 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 stakeout,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 he 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 problems, 
	said the Lord, it's the three pairs of 
	eyes an officer has to have. 
	
	 That's on the standard model? asked the angel. 
	
	 The Lord nodded.� One pair that sees through a 
	bulge in a pocket before he asks, May I see what's 
	in there, sir? (When he already knows and wishes 
	he'd taken that accounting job.)�
	 
	 Another pair here in the side of his head for his 
	partners' safety.� And another pair of eyes here 
	in front that can look reassuringly at a bleeding 
	victim and say, 'You'll be all right ma'am, when he 
	knows it isn't so. 
	
	 Lord, said the angel, touching his sleeve, why 
	don't you rest and work on this tomorrow. 
	
	 I can't, said 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 police officer 
	very slowly, Can it think? she asked. 
	
	 You bet, said the Lord.� It can tell you the 
	elements of a hundred crimes; recite Miranda 
	warnings in its sleep; detain, investigate, 
	search, and arrest a gang member on the 
	street in less time than it takes five learned judges 
	to debate the legality of the stop... and still it 
	keeps its sense of humor. 
	
	 This officer also has phenomenal personal 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 police officer.� There's a leak, she pronounced.� 
	I told you that you were trying to put too much into this model.
	 
	 That's 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, for justice. 
	
	 You're a genius, said the angel. 
	The Lord looked somberly at the angle and said.I'm no 
	genius, I didn't put the tear in his eye!

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