Como, Need a citation to your source that there was a time in this nation when being a cop  was the safest job on the planet because no one, and I mean no one, would dare mess with a cop. In fact, when (and why) did they start arming themselves? It must have been after, and only after, people started not respecting the cops. When did all this go down. I've done the research (not really), and I can't seem to find it.