This one's for you, Dan.
I remember the conversation we had;
and the topic you brought up.
It certainly made me think.
Here's my slant on it:

There are probably close to a million
men and women carrying the law-enforcement badge and gun throughout
North America.
I understand that they're paid not too shabbily.
They deserve it!
Hundreds of policemen & women, state troopers, sheriffs & deputies and fed agents die every year on active law-enforcement duty in the USA alone. I don't have the exact figure.
So what about soldiers, marines, sailors
and airmen? Shouldn't they get paid
as much as city police or county, state, provincial and fed law-enforcement agents and officials, too?
I say they should, maybe even more.

Jacob