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Ya know, I am 28 years old and I have found that this job has totally changed the way I think. Not really in a bad way but just changed. I am tired of people that haven't had a real job telling me or other officers that we "just dont know the real world".
Reality is having to load a guy that died in an enclosed trailer in 100 degree temps four days ago into a crash bag so his liquified remains didnt leach into the back of the funeral car. Or seeing a guy having blown his own brains out because he was broke and had no real life. Or fishing an illegal alien out of a shallow pool because he slipped and drowned.
Watching someone die is a *****. Especially after giving CPR for 30 minutes and trying to make sure they go home. Seeing a father beat the **** out of his wife in front of the kids and the kids crying because daddy is going to jail. They hate you because you are taking daddy away.
A family losing Christmas because some turd wanted to sell it a make some money. A mother selling everything she has and her children have because she needs that fix of heroin.
Compared to others in CT I have not been doing this that long. I have been in law enforcement since Feb. 2003. I havent seen the things that a rookie in LA has seen but it still wears down. Working rotating shifts and nights takes a toll. I am a Christian and I cant get to Church because of my schedule most of the time. That wears on me as well. People dont realize that police officers deal with stress a pressure of a different type. We eat crap that rats wont eat. Fried burritos from the 7-11 are a food group and people wonder why cops are out of shape.
I love this career and would not change it for anything else. However to say that it does have an effect on healf or maturity is a flat out wrong misconception. It really becomes easier to withdraw and tell people to go to hell. I will make it. I have to. My son needs me sane to raise him.
Reality is having to load a guy that died in an enclosed trailer in 100 degree temps four days ago into a crash bag so his liquified remains didnt leach into the back of the funeral car. Or seeing a guy having blown his own brains out because he was broke and had no real life. Or fishing an illegal alien out of a shallow pool because he slipped and drowned.
Watching someone die is a *****. Especially after giving CPR for 30 minutes and trying to make sure they go home. Seeing a father beat the **** out of his wife in front of the kids and the kids crying because daddy is going to jail. They hate you because you are taking daddy away.
A family losing Christmas because some turd wanted to sell it a make some money. A mother selling everything she has and her children have because she needs that fix of heroin.
Compared to others in CT I have not been doing this that long. I have been in law enforcement since Feb. 2003. I havent seen the things that a rookie in LA has seen but it still wears down. Working rotating shifts and nights takes a toll. I am a Christian and I cant get to Church because of my schedule most of the time. That wears on me as well. People dont realize that police officers deal with stress a pressure of a different type. We eat crap that rats wont eat. Fried burritos from the 7-11 are a food group and people wonder why cops are out of shape.
I love this career and would not change it for anything else. However to say that it does have an effect on healf or maturity is a flat out wrong misconception. It really becomes easier to withdraw and tell people to go to hell. I will make it. I have to. My son needs me sane to raise him.
