Most exciting cities to be a cop?

[farmerernie]

I'm ready to go anywhere to start that's a heavy urban area to start my cop career. I'm looking to maybe go to a city with a lot of action. Places that crossed my mind NYC,Baltimore,LA,Chicago, San Fran. Any recommendations not just those?

[Citicop]

1. St. Louis, MO
2. Camden, NJ
3. Detroit, MI
4. Flint, MI
5. Oakland, CA
6. Richmond, CA
7. Cleveland, OH
8. Compton, CA
9. Gary, IN
10. Birmingham, AL
11. Baltimore, MD
12. Memphis, TN
13. New Orleans, LA
14. Jackson, MS
15. Little Rock, AR
16. Baton Rouge, LA
17. Buffalo, NY
18. New Haven, CT
19. Hartford, CT
20. Dayton, OH
21. Kansas City, MO
22. Washington, DC
23. Newark, NJ
24. Cincinnati, OH
25. Atlanta, GA

Knock yourself out. The 25 most dangerous cities in America.

[mcsap]

The reason that Baltimore City is recruiting so hard is that officers are LEAVING to get away from the city.

There is a point in which the action you seek will be replaced by your desire to finish your shift in one piece.

[DeltaV]

If you want to move someplace just so you can get lots of "action" without regard for the real important things such as the quality of life in a particular place or the morale of the department, then I imagine you're going to struggle making it through the hiring process. Agencies don't want to hire people when their only reason for wanting to be a part of the department is because they might get lots of action.

[ChesCopPodz]

Just keep in mind, you'll also have to LIVE near the city in which you work. Every decent sized to large city has it's areas for the gung-ho officers to get in to plenty of action. Not every city has decent areas in or around the city in which to go home to.

[Big Sexy]

BIG has been to 19 out of the 25 & lived in 2 & worked in 2.

[retdetsgt]

BIG has been to 19 out of the 25 & lived in 2 & worked in 2.

Yeah, but you're a wilder and crazier guy than most of us!!!!

[Big Sexy]

Yeah, but you're a wilder and crazier guy than most of us!!!!

Aw shucks. Now you're going to have BIG blushing.

[GoldBadger]

BIG has been to 19 out of the 25

It doesn't count when you're at 37,000 feet.

New Orleans may get my vote.

[Big Sexy]

BIG has broken bread, walked the streets of and laid his head down in the afore alluded to metropolises. As well as traversed most on a flight or two.

[retdetsgt]

New Orleans may get my vote.

Only as the least likely city I will ever step foot in again.....

[qpd158]

I concur with most posts on here. If you want to have a quality life you can still work for a good department that has action. If you want to go on car chases, choose a Sheriff's Office, if you want to be shot at, or do a lot of shooting, look at the bigger cities. If you have a death wish, then put in for LA South Central, East St Louis, or Chicago. Personally I work in a relatively quiet community, we have buglaries, home invasions and arsons. And I can personally vouch that being shot/ shot at is not fun. Major adrenaline rush yes, but so is going home and seeing my 9 month's old face light up when he sees me.

[retdetsgt]

I think most any large city is going to have areas of high crime. Most will have sleepier neighborhoods too. My first 5 or 6 years, I worked the rock 'em sock 'em sections of the city. First the poor black neighborhood and then the poor, white trash area of the city. Both had lots of violent calls, etc. I got tired of that after a while and worked a more tranquil part of town that still had some crime, but nothing like where I had been before. After 10 years, I became a detective and left that to the younger people.

I had a great time the first part of my career and wouldn't trade the memories for anything, but I wouldn't have wanted to kept up that pace for 25 to 30 years.

[Ispbear]

I concur with most posts on here. If you want to have a quality life you can still work for a good department that has action. If you want to go on car chases, choose a Sheriff's Office, if you want to be shot at, or do a lot of shooting, look at the bigger cities. If you have a death wish, then put in for LA South Central, East St Louis, or Chicago. Personally I work in a relatively quiet community, we have buglaries, home invasions and arsons. And I can personally vouch that being shot/ shot at is not fun. Major adrenaline rush yes, but so is going home and seeing my 9 month's old face light up when he sees me.

Spoken like a true veteran whose been there and done that. +1

[ducatimom]

Knock yourself out. The 25 most dangerous cities in America.

WTF!?!

We aren't in the top 25?!

... Good thing!

My hood was number 1 in the '90's... Lived here then but not as a LEO.