Cops and teachers alike are not paid enough. My daughter is a teacher in a very underpriviledged suburb of Philadelphia. That being said, anyone that goes to work everyday with the possibility of being shot at by our upstanding citizens, will never be paid enough. How can you say they are well paid when guys that play football for a living are payed millions of dollars? Then they stub their toe and can't play for a month. With what they make, they should play even if their limbs have fallen off and their almost dead. I'm sorry, but until our police and fireman are paid what athletes are, there is something very wrong with this world.