But that being said, that's food for thought for you. As far as I'm concerned, until you steal from me directly via a ticket, waste of my time, or impounding, you and I will see eye to eye. After that, lets say your humanity decreases in my eyes.
Until then, if a bad guy goes after you out of uniform, you'll have my willing help/support fire/ etc. If you ticket me or rob me, or threaten me and humiliate me from the protection of your uniform, your wellbeing no longer matters to me, don't expect me to spare even a band aid or a cellphone call to the ambulance if you're hurt. Call it a contractual remedy. I won't go out of my way to hurt you unless you hurt me directly, but as with the first ticket I ever got... I had been a willing donor to several "help the deceased officers' families" funds. First ticket I got, was half of what I donated to each of those funds... I saved a lot of money since that year.
That's what I meant that I'd feel no sympathy for him or his family. Why should I donate for their kids to get teddy bears, when that ticket money is teddy bears my potential kids wouldn't have? So as far as I'm concerned, any cop who wastes my time or resources, is what any other robber is. My enemy.
Don't act like my enemy, and we can be friends for sure. I'd have more to say on the bureaucratic nightmare that the roadways have become, thanks to "effective policing." But I wager cops don't care since it keeps them fed and employed, and everyone else doesn't care because it only affects them when transportation costs go up, or things aren't shipped to the store on time. And then they blame greedy companies instead of effective policing of whatever malum prohibitum "crimes" they can nail you for.
But as you said you're a good guy, I'd say, so get the hell out of Cali before the floodgates open, and get yerself to Wyoming where they need a good sheriff who minds his own business.