My first day on the job as a police officer. Literally hiding in the bushes at a 4-way stop around 1am. Some unlucky woman fails to completely stop at the stop sign and my “partner” jumps into action, turns on the blue lights and lurches from the hide. Pulls the woman over (small child in the back seat) and begins to berate her for not fully stopping. All this in a quite neighborhood. At 1am with zero other traffic. Woman gets a ticket. That’s when I started to suspect I’d made a poor career choice. However, I thought maybe if I could get high enough up the chain of command I could help prevent bullshit like the above from happening. A few promotions later and I quickly learned that most senior LE’s are even worse. That’s when I left LE forever. The police by and large are not your frens.
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My first day on the job as a police officer. Literally hiding in the bushes at a 4-way stop around 1am. Some unlucky woman fails to completely stop at the stop sign and my “partner” jumps into action, turns on the blue lights and lurches from the hide. Pulls the woman over (small child in the back seat) and begins to berate her for not fully stopping. All this in a quite neighborhood. At 1am with zero other traffic. Woman gets a ticket. That’s when I started to suspect I’d made a poor career choice. However, I thought maybe if I could get high enough up the chain of command I could help prevent bullshit like the above from happening. A few promotions later and I quickly learned that most senior LE’s are even worse. That’s when I left LE forever. The police by and large are not your frens.
See? Here’s a police officer with integrity: he quit.
God bless you, I’d trust you to enforce the laws.
Thanks fren. May God bless you and yours.