Hey, wait a minute! Did you think about the lack of logic here? The implication of your statement is that we must not want to be police officers or we would be. That's simply not true. Perhaps we can't meet the physical requirements. Perhaps we are disqualified for some other reason. Some cities require their police officers to live within city limits. Maybe we don't. Obviously, I could go on and on.

Back to your fundamental point: I chose long ago to do something productive for society and generously remunerative for me. I can argue -- though I realize that many would disagree -- that airport cops are not really contributing very much to society, and the salary is certainly insufficient to attract the vast majority of people who can get better-paying jobs. We can probably leave it at that and not try to generalize about other personal qualities.

Bruce