cop saves a life

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6. Slightly different police department

Dunno if it is still true, but back in the late '70 or early '80s, the Kazoo police department was restructured to be combined with the fire department. I think they called it the "department of public safety" or some such thing. They even turned fire stations into locations out of which individual police officers could work. It was done as a cost savings measure. But to some extent there is a real possibility of making an impact on the militarization of the police forces that we've seen. It is very possible that this department hasn't been sucked into the same vortex of "combat mentality" that many others have. A little more "protect and serve" and a little less "war on <fear of the day>".