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As for stories. I need specifics on what you're looking for. Things that you are interested in hearing about.
In short. I am not a licensed police officer, but a reserve officer due to school. I have the exact same training as a police officer has and has had many experiences.[/QUOTE]
Just the sort of daily life on patrol. Any quirky or unique things that've happened around and to you? Also, do you work with a partner or alone when on patrol?
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[QUOTE=areolop;42836796]I work normally with a partner per policy due to safety concerns when interacting with the public. Licensed officers work alone.
I need something more specific than "weird" ... I dont consider anything weird by my standards anymore.[/QUOTE]
People going loony. Times when shit has caught you off guard. That sort of thing.
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I'm in college right now and I hope to be a police officer once I'm done here. At least, I think I do. I hear about things like this a lot and I question if I have what it takes sometimes.
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I've always put my hand up to the Police while driving if they're going the other way, not really sure why, glad to see it's appreciated in a way.
[QUOTE=areolop;42837087]uhh... again.. nothing really. I'll lay out some things.
1. Dead body
2. False fire alarms
3. One pursuit
4. Squad Car shenanigans
5. Animals in weird places
6. 100 person fight (neighboring city)
7. Bull getting lose, shots fired[/QUOTE]
5,6,7. :v:
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4 sounds like it could be interesting too.
I've got another one that's a little harsh, when I started as an EMT the cops would often call in to our radio and I was always fucking with the code book to try and figure out what the fuck they were saying.
Well one night we get a call in saying "FUCK WHAT THE CODE IS; GET THE FUCK IN HERE" so we show up and some guy had literally blown his brains out with a 10 gauge shotgun; I have a weak stomach so once again, my stomach expelled it's contents.
They had a paint scraper to peel off his skull from the wall.
See why I don't sleep that well?
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We've also done 'chasers' with coworkers.. which is where one would drive and you would have to keep up with him.. driving through neighborhoods and what not. If the lead car loses you, you have to buy him dinner.[/QUOTE]
The guys here drive chargers; I had one guy pull up in his charger and ask me to race because I have the SRT8 challenger; he said no tickets involved and was curious; believe it or not my car gave him a run for his money; when we stopped he was laughing his ass off.
[QUOTE=S33T;42839598]I've got another one that's a little harsh, when I started as an EMT the cops would often call in to our radio and I was always fucking with the code book to try and figure out what the fuck they were saying.
Well one night we get a call in saying "FUCK WHAT THE CODE IS; GET THE FUCK IN HERE" so we show up and some guy had literally blown his brains out with a 10 gauge shotgun; I have a weak stomach so once again, my stomach expelled it's contents.
They had a paint scraper to peel off his skull from the wall.
See why I don't sleep that well?[/QUOTE]
Do you have more stories? I'm sorry if that sounds pushy, just really curious about EMT work.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;42840278]Do you have more stories? I'm sorry if that sounds pushy, just really curious about EMT work.[/QUOTE]
Lots; once again just like OP said its what you want to hear about, I've never done anything heroic worth talking about.
Once we got to a scene and this kid a year older than me had impaled himself on a piece of another cars bumper; he asked us "Am I going to die?" and I didn't have the guts to tell him, but my superior told him he was indeed going to die. He maybe lived another minute before he died.
Another time we responded to somebody who had hit a tree at around 80 miles an hour and the steering wheel was sticking out of his back.
What stories are you looking for?
Just some of the more vivid or unique experiences you've had on the job? Does it seem surreal? What's the worst you've seen? What does it usually feel like arriving to a scene?
[QUOTE=OrkO;42825741]Police officers are generally wonderful people; it disgusts me when people call them pigs... especially when a person only has a negative disposition towards police officers for having gotten into trouble with the law. How does that make police officers pigs? It makes you an asshole for blaming other people for your own wrongdoings.[/QUOTE]
With all my being I want to love police officers, but they make it so damn hard. I see more cops sitting on the side of sparsely used roads waiting to give speeding tickets for 'quotas' that aren't supposed to exist than I see cops actually getting bad people off the streets and protecting my fellow citizens. I can honestly say I've never been in a situation where I was happy a cop was present and I hate to admit it.
As a side note: I've never so much as gotten a speeding ticket myself. I've never had any legal problems, but I have had my car broken into multiple times, I have lived a couple houses down from a known drug dealer, I have had family members beaten up walking down the street in their neighborhood and every time something like that happens I think of how many cops are sitting on the side of the road, wasting time giving useless speeding tickets who could have stopped it.
have you ever fired two guns while jumping through the air?
[QUOTE=sgman91;42842531]With all my being I want to love police officers, but they make it so damn hard. I see more cops sitting on the side of sparsely used roads waiting to give speeding tickets for 'quotas' that aren't supposed to exist than I see cops actually getting bad people off the streets and protecting my fellow citizens. I can honestly say I've never been in a situation where I was happy a cop was present and I hate to admit it.[/QUOTE]
if you're worried about quotas, move to Minnesota, where quotas are explicitly illegal to have.
[QUOTE=Cabbage;42842606]have you ever fired two guns while jumping through the air?[/QUOTE]
Have you ever fired one gun whilst jumping through the air?
If you want bad stories about what your community/city is really like just go talk to a career police officer, firefighter, or EMT. Theres a lot more that happens than what the public knows.
This is a copyrighted piece that was altered without authorization on the Canadian website and will be removed. Please respect my copyright and refrain from posting and sharing this "version." The original text can be viewed at [url]http://uneflic.blogspot.com/2007/05/confessions-of-beat-cop.html[/url]
Thank you. Stay Safe.
.[QUOTE=areolop;42824998][url]http://behindtheredserge.ca/2013/11/04/confession-of-a-police-officer/[/url]
A good post about ones perspective on the job. This was originally posted by Families of the RCMP for PTSD Awareness, a Canadian website.[/QUOTE]
Welp. there you go. Mods can close this thread
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Sorry for generating traffic to an article that deserves more publicity haha
Woah...
[QUOTE=areolop;42843948]Welp. there you go. Mods can close this thread
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Sorry for generating traffic to an article that deserves more publicity haha[/QUOTE]
Lol that fucker's a cowboy, posting on a forum lol. The unprofessionalism lol.
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[QUOTE=areolop;42839790]Theres a lot of things that happen... well.. because they do.
We we're jumping curbs to catch this fucker and I ended up bending a rim because I was jumping them at such a speed it fucked up.
Decide to fuck around one winter night and put the car on an ice rink. I thought we were never going to get off that ice. So slick.
Random races down the highway with other cops
Falling through a packed snow bank, tearing off the bumper.
Falling through packed snow and onto ice underneath which lead to 3 hours trying to get the thing out.. to no avail until a dude with a huge truck came and pulled us out.
I've hit black ice twice.
1. Delivering some city council mail... hit the ice, couldn't turn, slammed into a guard rail. Ruined the paint and bumper.
2. Chasing a dude, hit ice, spin 360, almost hitting wall of business. I shit my pants.
We've done some good drifts in the CVPIs though.. great cars.
Then this last summer, I was driving normally and the fucking toque converter fails on me. Had to limb the thing back to base going like 15 on busy streets.
Last winter I was getting on the highway and killed a spark plug. Misfires everywhere. Car not happy.
Others have T-boned people and rolled cars. I thankfully havent done that shit yet.
We've also done 'chasers' with coworkers.. which is where one would drive and you would have to keep up with him.. driving through neighborhoods and what not. If the lead car loses you, you have to buy him dinner.[/QUOTE]
This was a thing here for quite some time. Playing chicken with the police and such.
I know you aren't the one who altered it and you wouldn't have known. I apologize for not being clear. Just getting the word out there after that site you mentioned changed it all around and over 1200 people shared it. Thanks. Stay safe.
[QUOTE=Chernobyl426;42841004]Just some of the more vivid or unique experiences you've had on the job? Does it seem surreal? What's the worst you've seen? What does it usually feel like arriving to a scene?[/QUOTE]
The most unique was when we found a guy that was jammed in between a guard rail and the pavement; he was on a motorcycle and crashed at 50 miles an hour; at first I assumed he was dead so when I approached him.
His helmet hid his face and I started kicking the guard rail out of the guys way; and he says "Could you fucking not?" so at this point I throw myself down next to him and start asking him questions to make sure he isn't brain dead and he responds perfectly to every one.
they ended up cutting him out of the guard rail; he walked away with a broken pinkie.
How does it feel? Well for me; it was just anxiety of knowing somebody was dead; dying, or severely injured.
The worst I had seen other than the kids was a guy who was texting, he hit a guy on a motor cycle and flipped 30 something times, the guy on the bike was DOA splattered his head like a melon; even with a helmet on he had a snowflakes chance in hell.
When we got to the other person; the one who had flipped? We found him ejected from the car and his head had been impaled on a large piece of re bar that had been in the ditch.
The most Vivid? Definitely the kids.. you just never forget something like that.
[QUOTE=areolop;42843948]Welp. there you go. Mods can close this thread
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Sorry for generating traffic to an article that deserves more publicity haha[/QUOTE]
I think you missed the point of the persons post, the website you linked in the OP took the blogpost that UneFlic linked to, altered it and added is as their own content. If you really want to generate traffic to an article that deserves more publicity, link UneFlic's link in the OP so that people go to the site that it originally came from.
I'll add the link then to both.. with the original being the first
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Rather, just the original text as the edited version was deleted
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