I feel bad when any person gets killed but why do we taxpayers have to pay for 1,000 cops/firemen to fly from all over the USA, stay a few days in 5 star hotels to attend the funeral for cops/firemen.
We have to pay for 1,000 local cops/firemen to drive their cars, motorcycles, helicopters, etc. from hundreds of miles around to attend the funeral. Then they clog up the freeways and streets during rush hour and tie up traffic, ruin business for local merchants, etc.
This has gone to far.
If you have a high risk job and get killed don't burden the taxpayers with unnecessary expenses and drag us through the whole damn funeral with y'all. Nobody held a gun to your head and made you join the FD or PD so you can't say you didn't join on your own.