Even the cops that are starfishs are starfishs because everyone is an starfish to them.
If I was getting abused to stuff every time I tried doing my job (and even when not) I would get pissed off too.
It is true. It is a very stressful job with sometimes little satisfaction or rewards. You can only answer so many calls where you have to go to another rape, another domestic abuse, another Self Delete, another traffic ticket, another murder. Many of those go unsolved or the someone is not willing to press charges and just keeps getting victimized over and over. Doesn't help when you come home to see someone on CNN calling you a baby killer, a tribal, corrupt, or a thug. Those people you have to deal with everyday become just another person because they are just another person who got robbed, just another women who got beat by her husband, just another rape, another robbery, another burglary, another Self Delete. You grow up fast, especially if you are young cop.
One of my criminal justice teachers had a kid die his arms when he answered a call. You never come home the same person when something like that happens.