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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lhorgrim" data-source="post: 2458277" data-attributes="member: 12222">Folks, I have had to do some rough things in my law enforcement job over the last decade, but today was close to the breaking point.I have had to work fatal collisions.  I have had to try to comfort a woman who's husband had just shot himself.  She kept asking if he was going to be Ok, and I had to keep spouting non-commital statements because even though I knew he was already gone, in my State only the coroner can pronounce someone dead.  I have had to do many things like these, and some affect me more than others, but today I had to take a woman's 18 month old grandchild away because of a court order from another county, and give the little girl to her step-grandmother.Maybe it was best for the child, I have no way of knowing, but that did NOT make it easier to take the child from her grandmother.  I do know that it does not involve abuse, because our social services was called by the step-grandmother, and the caseworker refused to issue a report of neglect or abuse.  I get the feeling that the step grandmother twisted the court system in her nome county to get the result that she wanted.  Makes me a bit sick to my stomach.  I've been doing this job for a long time, and I'm not a fool.  I'm certain that there is more to the story that I don't know, but it was really hard to pick up that frightened, crying child and carry her away from her grandmother. I wouldn't be surprised if she is afraid of uniformed police officers for the rest of her life.I got into this career to help people and make a positive impact in my community, but sometimes it seems that 80% of my job is bringing misery to someone.Sorry about the bringdown, but I just felt the need to vent about something that really got through my armor today. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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