Hollywood actor Bruce Willis has credited his addiction to playing cops on his appreciation for the work they do.
The Unbreakable star, is currently starring in 16 Blocks as ageing detective Jack Mosley.
He believes that policemen are the world's ultimate, and often unsung, heroes.
"I think it's partly because I'm from South Jersey and I have a strong affinity to working-class people. I believe that any job that requires you to possibly get shot dead, you should get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for.
"These guys don't get paid anything. And yet they go out and do it. "There's not a lot of them out there, and they're the last line between us and the wolves and the chaos that's out in the world," Contactmusic quoted the actor as saying.
In another report he has expressed his support for the constitutional right of Americans to carry guns.
He insisted that everyone should have the right to defend themselves with a weapon if necessary and pointed out that gun owners were not necessarily violent.