I am the police, and I’m here to arrest you.

You’ve broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it.

No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars.

If you run away I will chase you.

If you fight me I will fight back.

If you shoot at me I will shoot back.

By law I am unable to walk away.

I am a consequence. I am the unpaid bill. I am fate with a badge and a gun.

Behind my badge is a heart like yours.

I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I can be killed.

And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me.

They will lay down their lives for me, and I them.

We stand watch together.

The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad.

We are the police.