DENNIS MILLER=Dennis Miller on Cops

Boy, I don’t envy cops. A cop is a person who leaves every day for work and doesn’t know if they’ll ever make it home alive. In other words, they’re just like any other person trying to earn a living.

Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but the glamorous and exciting image of cops we have from TV shows and movies give you as accurate a picture of reality as watching a Bill Clinton press conference dubbed in Swahili while you’re high on amyl nitrate poppers. Or, for that matter, a Clinton press conference under any circumstances.

Now, before I criticize how other people do their jobs, I always ask myself, “Could I do it?” And the answer here is no, because the job of cop can be more foul than George Kennedy without his Breath assure.

Hey, I just don’t have the temperament. The first time some Chiclet-brain I pulled over for a traffic ticket gave me that “Hey, I pay your salary,” rap, I’d be too tempted to flip him a quarter and say, “Here’s a refund, #v