Now, Be Myself.

Food for thought, piece of cake.
Make a promise, lead the way.
Pay some homage when they reach the stage.

Common sense is often preferred to logic, against all conventional common sense. Common sense dictates that the job of a policeman is to bring back the peace. If, for example, a domestic dispute between two neighbors because a Mr. Smith's dog has crapped in the wrong place for the last damn time, Mr. Blake and Mr. Smith are now having a vicious row over the 4 foot hedge spanning the properties, which Mr. Smith is sure Mr. Blake is watering much to often, and Mr. Blake is sure that Mr. Smith shouldn't be trimming it so often. Mrs. Blake and Smith are off having their own private arguments around the back, or else having a quiet sit down over tea and biscuits.

In this case, a policeman's job is to quell the nagging urge to bang together the heads of the two men, and drag them away from each other, to a later fair trial. Their job is not, as is often expected, to solve the argument, merely bring back the peace. They are keepers of the peace, and no more. Solving the argument requires a really good contractor, or perhaps a lawyer or two.

Now, if Mr. Smith clambered over the hedge and stabbed Mr. Blake with his hedge shearers, in which case it became the case of the Notorious Hedge Murderer, then it was the police's job to solve the case, but at least it's one they're damn well trained to do.

People in our country expect to much from to little people. Spread the work, it's not communist, it's "Common sense."