“Do you think when these officers are in the bar or privacy of their clubs they are complimenting us?”
I think (and my thinking is based on working with police in my professional capacity, and counting one goyische police officer as a personal friend (no, I don’t eat in his house or attend his church)) that a few of them who’ve patrolled a Jewish neighborhood for a longtime have a certain admiration for the community and way of life, others are wholly indifferent and don’t compliment or denigrate us one way or the other, and then a third group dislikes us. Of course, the size of this third group would increase in size if they came to believe that every time a Jew thanks them and gives them a plaque and applauds their work with their community, the Jew is really thinking to himself, I hope this dumb goyische kup is falling for this, as I know he’d just as soon stab me in the back, but until Moschiach comes, I need his protection, so I hope he doesn’t catch on to how false this whole charade is.