If you follow the news, you may have forgotten there are police officers like Greg Moore. The sergeant with the Coeur d’Alene Police Department, whose life will be celebrated at Lake City High School today, embodied the expression “good cop” in everything he did. Moore did the hard things, like firing his weapon when a suspect in a domestic violence call started shooting. If only he could have done as much when attacked Tuesday. But Moore did the soft things, too. In 2002, early in his 16-year tenure with the department, Moore and another officer invited students who cruised Sherman Avenue to test their ear-splitting car stereos against a decibel meter. When one student’s Beastie Boys blast topped out at 77, Moore’s comment: “That all you got?” To help lower the din, he also introduced students to the merchants suffering from the wall of sound. It’s easier to talk when you can hear each other/Spokesman-Review Editorial Board. More here.