I do know a police officer multi-millionaire. And another that is a co-founder of a company he is doing on the side and seems to be finding some success. Ther

I do know a police officer multi-millionaire. And another that is a co-founder of a company he is doing on the side and seems to be finding some success. There are very few intellectual property clauses in their contract and it is a job that they can leave at the station door when they go home in terms of creative energy. Those two are admittedly outliers but when I was running events I had to (well, it was strongly suggested by the police themselves) hire off-duty police officers for $80/hour for security. Not to mention overtime which is fairly common. In short, yes they risk their lives, but these folks have more opportunity to pad their bottom line than you seem to imagine.