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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lhorgrim" data-source="post: 2127867" data-attributes="member: 12222">I loved my job when I started (Police Officer).  For the first five years I lived the job and felt I was making a difference in my community.  Then all the bad stuff started to seep in.  The cases we worked so hard to make were blown off in court.  Serious offenders were given probation and no jail time because putting them in the jail would "cost the county too much money".  I made an arrest on a gentleman for breaking his wife's nose in a domestic disturbance, and in the course of the arrest he broke one officer's nose and bit a second officer on the forearm before we were able to get him cuffed.  He was in violation of an emergency protective order at the time of the assault.  The tally of charges in that exchange is three misdemeanors and two felonies.  He made a plea agreement and was sentenced to 90 days in jail, with credit for the 14 days he served while awaiting trial.  I was somewhat disheartened with the system after that. I have had to go to several autopsies, and one of them was a very young child.  This was about the time of my son's first birthday, and I still have a hard time dealing with it.Last month on a Saturday one of my fellow officers parked his personal vehicle next to the police station and shot himself with his duty pistol in front of his family.  I was not on duty, but because of my rank I was required to respond and direct the death investigation.  These aspects of the job were not exactly advertised in the recruitment literature.Now it has been ten years, and I have been promoted to the second highest position in the department.  I kept taking the promotions to try to get into a position to change things, but I just keep losing heart.  I'm now looking for something in the private sector, far away from law enforcement so I can put these bad memories behind me.Sorry for the rant, but I can't say these things in my home town for fear that my new job search will be hampered by this "bad attitude".</blockquote>

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