I would like to address all those people who like to bash the PTC police. Do any one of you have any idea what it is like to be a police officer? Do you understand the stress of knowing that each and every day you may have someone fight you, someone shoot at you, someone try to KILL you. That each day you put that gun belt on and say good bye to your wife and kids it may be the LAST TIME they see you alive?? And they do this job knowing the pay is crappy, the hours suck, and their lives are on the line. Instead, people bash the PTC police for doing their job...the job they get paid so little for. The officers of PTC are some of the best officers around. They do their job to the best of their ability. They CHOOSE to stay a PTC officer even knowing that they get no respect from the citizens they strive to protect. They CHOOSE to stay even though they know they have to act as a parent to many of the bad kids, they have to be the disciplinarian to those kids and then face the wrath and bad mouthing of the parents who don't care enough to BE a parent! The PTC officers come in to work each and every day KNOWING that their shift will probably be short staffed and that back up in an urgent sitation may be longer in coming because of the lack of a full shift.