Any LEO's willing to answer a few questions?

[TxSpinner]

Just looking to ask a few questions and have an open honest conversation about your career.

[brysdad]

When you ask it that way it sounds like you’re looking for an argument. What kinds of things are you wanting to ask? I’d be willing to chat depending on what you’re wanting to ask.

[rut-ro]

What you got? I have only been in for 10 years but love the job.

[UltraMax]

Whats your questions?

[zr2chevy22]

What's your questions? I'm game

[Acameron52]

Just become a Fireman if that’s what you’re asking...

[flyby]

25 years this month. I'm in. Sent you a PM.

[CrookedArrow]

Go ahead I watch a bunch of cop shows I have an idea what goes on.

[xman59]

spent 30 years on the streets in Beaumont,,, been retired for 8 now.... probably not much you can ask me i havn't been asked before

[TxSpinner]

When you ask it that way it sounds like you’re looking for an argument. What kinds of things are you wanting to ask? I’d be willing to chat depending on what you’re wanting to ask.

No argument at all. I can see how you would think that though. I'm actually interested in making the career change.

[TxSpinner]

I'm wanting to make that career change to Law Enforcement. It's been on my mind for many years now. At the time I just couldn't walk away from the money I was making. But between absolutely hating my current career, and finally understanding that all money never made me happy, I'm ready to do what I've always wanted.

[UltraMax]

Quoted from Joe Friday, and it’s pretty ****ed spot on:

“It’s not much of a life, unless you don’t mind missing a Dodger game because the hotshot phone rings. Unless you like working Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, at a job that doesn’t pay overtime. Oh, the pay’s adequate– if you count pennies you can put your kid through college, but you better plan on seeing Europe on your television set.

And then there’s your first night on the beat. When you try to arrest a drunken prostitute in a Main St. bar and she rips your new uniform to shreds. You’ll buy another one– out of your own pocket.

And you’re going to rub elbows with the elite– pimps, addicts, thieves, bums, winos, girls who can’t keep an address and men who don’t care. Liars, cheats, con men– the class of Skid Row.

And the heartbreak– underfed kids, beaten kids, molested kids, lost kids, crying kids, homeless kids, hit-and-run kids, broken-arm kids, broken-leg kids, broken-head kids, sick kids, dying kids, dead kids. The old people nobody wants– the reliefers, the pensioners, the ones who walk the street cold, and those who tried to keep warm and died in a $3 room with an unventilated gas heater. You’ll walk your beat and try to pick up the pieces.

Do you have real adventure in your soul? You better have, because you’re gonna do time in a prowl car. Oh, it’s going to be a thrill a minute when you get an unknown-trouble call and hit a backyard at two in the morning, never knowing who you’ll meet– a kid with a knife, a pill-head with a gun, or two ex-cons with nothing to lose.

And you’re going to have plenty of time to think. You’ll draw duty in a lonely car, with nobody to talk to but your radio.

Four years in uniform and you’ll have the ability, the experience and maybe the desire to be a detective. If you like to fly by the seat of your pants, this is where you belong. For every crime that’s committed, you’ve got three million suspects to choose from. And most of the time, you’ll have few facts and a lot of hunches. You’ll run down leads that dead-end on you. You’ll work all-night stakeouts that could last a week. You’ll do leg work until you’re sure you’ve talked to everybody in the state of California.

People who saw it happen – but really didn’t. People who insist they did it – but really didn’t. People who don’t remember – those who try to forget. Those who tell the truth – those who lie. You’ll run the files until your eyes ache.

And paperwork? Oh, you’ll fill out a report when you’re right, you’ll fill out a report when you’re wrong, you’ll fill one out when you’re not sure, you’ll fill one out listing your leads, you’ll fill one out when you have no leads, you’ll fill out a report on the reports you’ve made! You’ll write enough words in your lifetime to stock a library. You’ll learn to live with doubt, anxiety, frustration. Court decisions that tend to hinder rather than help you. Dorado, Morse, Escobedo, Cahan. You’ll learn to live with the District Attorney, testifying in court, defense attorneys, prosecuting attorneys, judges, juries, witnesses. And sometimes you’re not going to be happy with the outcome.

But there’s also this: there are over 5,000 men in this city, who know that being a policeman is an endless, glamourless, thankless job that’s gotta be done.

I know it, too, and I’m **** glad to be one of them.”

[hopedale]

No argument at all. I can see how you would think that though. I'm actually interested in making the career change.

Do it.

In 2006 I moved to Texas. My cousin tried hard to get me to join APD. Had I done so, I'd have 12 plus years under my belt and looking at a great retirement.

Both my neighbors retired and I was blown away at what they get.

And both are still young enough to have a 2nd career.

[sbushee]

16 years here. Spent 9 dual certified as police and fire. Like someone above said, be a fireman. Everyone loves them, they’re heroes, and they spend a lot of time sitting around the station.

[Black Ice]

Any LEO's willing to answer a few questions?

spent 30 years on the streets in Beaumont,,, been retired for 8 now.... probably not much you can ask me i havn't been asked before

Do you know a Cassidy?




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