They get called "heroes" merely for being cops - along with all the other things I mentioned (and more besides).
It is not difficult to understand how this (and/or any of those other things) could be regarded as more-than-adequate recompense for the tedium of paperwork, or the writing of tickets in inclement weather, or the opprobrium directed at them by ticketed persons, or etc.
None of this has anything at all to do with my remark. I simply answered your question.
You asked, "[Christian Liberty calls] them 'robbers', I ask again, what does the cop get out of it?"
Assuming (if only for the sake of argument) that cops are "robbers" - or for that matter, even if they are not - it's no big mystery what they "get out of it" (namely, the things I mentioned: a salary, a pension, authority, special privileges such as "qualified immunity," adulation as "heroes" because they are cops, etc., etc.). The only alternative to this is to assert that they don't get
anything out of it. But if that was the case, then why would they do it at all (regardless of whether one believes that "all" or "some" or "none" of them are "robbers")?
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