What is your job like?

[explorer2004]

What is your job like for you?

[TPDHellhound]

You may want to be more specific if you would like more responses. Law Enforcement is very diverse between agencies and officers.

[explorer2004]

You may want to be more specific if you would like more responses. Law Enforcement is very diverse between agencies and officers.

What is it like to work om the streets?

[Cat_Doc]

What is it like to work om the streets?

9 hours and 55 minutes of boredom, 5 minutes of sheer terror.

[TPDHellhound]

9 hours and 55 minutes of boredom, 5 minutes of sheer terror.

Agreed!

It's still a difficult question though. Somedays great, somedays horrible, but most days sit somewhere in the middle.

An amazingly generic answer to an amazingly generic question. :D

[sbrad]

What is your job like for you?

It's like a Moon Pie and RC Cola.

[Cat_Doc]

I distinctly remember one night, a couple of hours till end of shift, driving down E. Main, minding my own business and wondering what I was going to do on my days off.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!! Alert tone goes off, “Shots fired, multiple shots fired, area of 500 E. 4th street!”

“Baker 62, I’m en route” “Charlie 101, en route.”

Dispatch, “Units be advised we are receiving multiple calls. It appears it is a rolling shooting, east bound on 4th street. Last call was from 800 block east 4th.”

(From a state gang task force detective) “It is south of Florence Blvd., traveling east, I am near the Jack in the Box and can hear numerous rounds going off. Sounds like vehicles traveling at high speed!”

I start north bound on Trekell Road. As I am approaching 2nd street, I see a small sedan blow through a stop sign at Trekell doing at least 45-50 m.p.h. Right after it, another sedan blows through.

I see a subject hanging out of the passenger window of the second vehicle, firing off rounds at the first car with what turns out to be a 7.62 semi-auto rifle. I can see the muzzle flashes milliseconds before hearing the shots.

I call it in and put the accelerator to the floor board trying to catch up to the vehicles.

It soon dawns on me that I am armed with a 9mm pistol and I am actually hauling *** to try and catch up to this mess. I ask myself, “What the hell are you doing?” :eek: But my foot remains pressed on the accelerator.

That my friend is what it is like working the streets.

[Group9]

9 hours and 55 minutes of boredom, 5 minutes of sheer terror.

.....:D.......

[explorer2004]

I distinctly remember one night, a couple of hours till end of shift, driving down E. Main, minding my own business and wondering what I was going to do on my days off.

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!! Alert tone goes off, “Shots fired, multiple shots fired, area of 500 E. 4th street!”

“Baker 62, I’m en route” “Charlie 101, en route.”

Dispatch, “Units be advised we are receiving multiple calls. It appears it is a rolling shooting, east bound on 4th street. Last call was from 800 block east 4th.”

(From a state gang task force detective) “It is south of Florence Blvd., traveling east, I am near the Jack in the Box and can hear numerous rounds going off. Sounds like vehicles traveling at high speed!”

I start north bound on Trekell Road. As I am approaching 2nd street, I see a small sedan blow through a stop sign at Trekell doing at least 45-50 m.p.h. Right after it, another sedan blows through.

I see a subject hanging out of the passenger window of the second vehicle, firing off rounds at the first car with what turns out to be a 7.62 semi-auto rifle. I can see the muzzle flashes milliseconds before hearing the shots.

I call it in and put the accelerator to the floor board trying to catch up to the vehicles.

It soon dawns on me that I am armed with a 9mm pistol and I am actually hauling *** to try and catch up to this mess. I ask myself, “What the hell are you doing?” :eek: But my foot remains pressed on the accelerator.

That my friend is what it is like working the streets.

Thanks. I did a ridelong and it was nothing like that, but I saw how quick things can change. At first the night started out slow, then about an hour later we were speeding down the road to a domestic. Of course I was not allowed out of the car, but they were fighting in a school parklot so I got to see the whole thing. I'll have to say that speeding down the road was fun. I have notice that in a police department all the officers are family. A lot of citizens call its co-workers, but its not. I guess you did that because you would do just about anything to help your fellow officers out.

[leo401]

Some days you are a social worker, some days a complaint taker, some days an undesirable, and some times an unsung hero. You are hired because someone trusts you but there are many who don't. You are required to have courage, and still keep faith. To be a leading example for those that have lost their way. But most of all no matter what, make the tough choices, and stand with them, where few little would...

[explorer2004]

Some days you are a social worker, some days a complaint taker, some days an undesirable, and some times an unsung hero. You are hired because someone trusts you but there are many who don't. You are required to have courage, and still keep faith. To be a leading example for those that have lost their way. But most of all no matter what, make the tough choices, and stand with them, where few little would...

How come people these days give police very little respect?

[Group9]

How come people these days give police very little respect?

Probably the same reason they don't respect their parents, their teachers, our country's leaders or anyone else. Whatever that is.

[TPDHellhound]

How come people these days give police very little respect?

90% of the people out there give police tons of respect. We just mainly deal with the other 10%!

The media, the main cause of the disrespect, is compiled mainly of the same types of people that praise civil disobedience. And cops must act as the peacekeepers. The media identifies the cops as the government, thus the enemy. We cops must promote obedience of the law regardless of our political opinions, but the media doesn't. And so the division begins!

But overall, I have found that a large majority of the people appreciate and respect the officers that represent them.

[leo401]

How come people these days give police very little respect?

well it all started in the 60's and has been growing worse every since....

[explorer2004]

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