Truebeliever
6.5 Creedmoor
I think my point is the opposite but simThe cook( if in the army ) and the Ranger are all soldiers . Not all soldiers are rangers.No, calling both the cook and the Ranger "soldier" is closer to what you're talking about.
Now, your notions of who gets to be a "cop" and who doesn't is closer to the idea where most civilians call everyone in any branch a "soldier".
It may piss off a sailor or an airman if you call them soldier (and it probably will piss off a soldier of you call a sailor or airman a soldier too), but to most civilians soldier is just the name for a member of the armed forces.
Cop, police officer, peace officer, etc are the same way. Those in the industry have their notions of all the fine distinctions, but to the outside world it doesn't matter.
You probably think of everyone who works with pipes as a "plumber". But in the industry, a plumber is not a pipefitter is not a steamfitter. But to you any guy connecting pipes is a plumber, right ?
Not all police/peace officers are cops. It’s a destination of how that police officer works. Not all police officers in the same department are considered cops. That cook could be placed on the front lines and in danger but isn’t expected to perform to the level of that ranger.
Do think the career paper pushing female officer is expected to perform the same way as the cop who has been on patrol for 10 years if called out to the front line of a riot? Same danger, different expectations. And that does and did happen for a lot of 2020. And they are both police officers .
But your recognition civilian misuse of the title “ cop “ is right. The press often calls the AG of US- America’s top cop when he/she was never an LEO beyond being a prosecutor.
It’s like some military get into an uproar about the term civilian by the police even if the dictionary says it applies to non members of the military, police, or firefighter services.
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