@@Horsemanrayroofers actually make peoples lives better not worse. Much respect to people who work hard, contribute to society and don’t fuck with anyone.
@@Horsemanray Right? And a roofer brings piece of mind by stopping water damage that destroys your home. Police will DESTROY your home because they can't seem to get addresses right, or actually figure out who lives where, which is easy.
I was military too, 17 hour days sometimes, 11 month deployments, working every day. Thought 12 hours was cake. BUT then realized 12 hours in the police world, will drain you a hell of a lot more and a hell of a lot faster than the military ever did. Join up, you’ll understand what I’m saying.
We need more cops like you. You really seem to care and have a gentle but firm disposition. To me, that's the ideal mix for a good police officer. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for protecting your city. I hope other officers can learn from your example.
I really want to be a cop when I'm older and this video has really opened my eyes to what you guys do, and I still want to do this and I am prepared for what will come. Thank you for your service and I will be praying for you. God bless
This isn't "service". Cops are not the military for a REASON. Cops are to keep the peace and enforce the law. When you pretend cops are soldiers then EVERYONE on the street is an enemy combatant.
I totally agree with what everything you mentioned in your video. Every applicant who places their name into the process to become a Police Officer. From the youngest applicate to the oldest who applies needs to really be asked those hard questions. I believe It’s really a mindset with this occupation with any type of high stress job. Going into this job I believe that the officer must have an extreme strong support system going in and maintaining their craft. Going from high stress call to another will place a strain on the officer. The switch is real with turning it on and off. How do you wind down from a high stressful day.
Great question! Jack Daniels.... lol JK (kinda), but I typically just like coming home to family and playing with my daughter helps me put all the BS aside. I used to crank the music and go on runs a lot after work before we had our daughter. It's also helpful to talk to someone about the things you dealt with, and I usually do this with my wife, leaving out gritty details. Oh and a punching bag helps too.
He brings up many topics that are true and pertinent to police work. Forget all of the television shows and movies that show police officers as super heroes and super villains. We are just men and women who are trying to make life in our communities safer and more responsible to our citizens. The points that he brings up are the same things that we, as police officers, have had to deal with over the years. Even when I was an active officer in the 1970-1980's. These are the same issues today as they were back then. We just didn't have "social media" to spread falsehoods and untruths about the situations that we have to deal with on a daily basis. And, Yes, it can be very stressful and dangerous. However, it is also a very rewarding and satisfying career. But, unfortunately, the people that vilify us and accuse us of police brutality are the vary same ones who have no idea what "The Job" entails. They never go on a "ride along" with patrol officers. They never see the depths of human depravity that we witness on a daily basis. They would never consider pinning on the badge and taking the oath that we all did. But, they are the ones who are the first to raise their voices in anger and outrage. Often without even looking at ALL of the EVIDENCE, before they make their accusations and and judgements.
Thank you for everything that you do!!! I know our LEO’s don’t get the recognition they deserve, but I want you to know that I am forever grateful that there are men and women who go out each and every day/night to protect and serve their communities, never knowing what that shift has in store. You are amazing!!❤️
@willywillington9252 they chose a candidate that "better meets our criteria." Didn't get an explanation or get to know where I messed up. I was told I passed everything, polygraph, both interviews, written tests, and physical test. I got a job as a machinist, which was my profession years ago. I make good money and don't have the same risk on my life. No hard feelings.
Thank you. I am going to withdraw my application to the academy. I was supposed to start in August. The recruiter did not talk about these realities. Going to do computer training.
Most people don't have the mental and physical strength to be a police officer. The average regular person honestly just can't handle our job. I understand your decision to move to a more light career
Every Job has they’re bad employees and every job has they’re down sides. Plus if I was a cop (witch I am thinking about becoming a police dispatch) and if I see something on the news or social media of a bad cop and everyone pissed about it. My advice is just keep this in mind there still people out there that still cares about law enforcement and they got you and rest of the officers in America back. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Matthew 5:9 And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.” Isaiah 6:8
Yeah. The reality. Like cops are above the law. Like the time Officer 401 filmed himself doing 107 mph on the freeway in his personal vehicle because he knew he was above the law.
I have wanted to become a Police officer since I was 6 years old.... I'm nearly 27 and it's still my DREAM Career....! I'm Self Sponsoring myself through the 12 Week Police Academy at a Community College in September 2022 here in Tennessee
@@GreyGloves The Self Sponsoring route did not work due to the 6 hour distance from home, the college not providing lodging, and having to go 3 months with no income. However, I officially got hired as a police officer just 2 weeks ago. I will be sworn-in and in uniform next week. The department is sending me to the 12 week class at Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy, which is 2 hours away, starting September 29TH to December 19TH. It feels very surreal that it has finally became reality at age 28!! THANK GOD!! Applying for 8 years, since I was 21 in 2016, has paid off. I wanted to give up a few times along the way, but I didn't. I applied to 16 departments and went through about 24 hiring processes (I applied to a few departments more than once). It's very competitive getting your start in LE. I'm going to start back to college in January 2025 to work towards my Sociology Degree while being on the force
@@ShawnA3104 glad you reached your goal to become the finest, my respect for your dedication. Im gonna apply to OMON soon, hope it'll work out for me as well.
You are out of sync with the world. You work nights and weekends when peers are off of work. Pull a graveyard shift and have to deal with delivery drivers, landscapers etc while you are trying to sleep. Sometimes you have to go to court and get only 2 hours of sleep before your next shift.
My Dream since i was 7 years old was to be a police officer and im only 15 years old but when i can be a police officer will because a police officer job is not for anyone but i know that i what to be a cop.
When im older I am becoming a police officer Its something I have been passionate about for most of my life. I have always been the outcast in my family like my brother is in medical school my sister is going into law and I want to be a police officer Thank you for the further insight, and thank you for your service.
One of the things about LE work is keeping your emotions in check after someone just tried to take your life. If you wound them you are expected to render aid. Not sure I would be able to control my emotions.
How about when cops defend someone who almost took yours while you were riding down a street? And NO ONE will even listen because the cops word is the gods honest truth no matter what the evidence?
In my opinion nobody, and I do mean NOBODY, has "what it takes" to be a police officer. The toll on the human mind is not just stressful but stressful to the point of PTSD in EVERY case. Cops are required to roll around in the mud with society's dregs, both literally and figuratively, and I don't believe ANYONE is capable of dealing with that amount of stress for more than a few years before they start to crack. It is a recipe for disaster to even ask them to do so. There is no amount of training, camaraderie, macho denial, drugs or alcohol that can stave off the deleterious effects that this kind of work imposes on the human psyche. The policing system in use today is bad not only for police officers themselves, but for the rest of society as well. A cop who has seen enough, done enough and had enough is a truly dangerous specimen; every bit as dangerous as the people they're supposed to be protecting us from. We've seen it happen over and over and over. It's a real thing. Police officers routinely commit suicide in numbers that exceed on-duty fatalities from ALL causes, not just being killed by a perp, but traffic accidents and heart attacks, etc. "Officer safety" apparently does not include safety from their #1 killer - themselves. This is NOT the desired effect. It is a known fact that people with psychopathic tendencies are represented in police work more than the general population. Psychopaths have certain attributes that can make them "good" cops, but those same attributes can also make them "bad" cops. As new recruits dwindle, the only candidates left are increasingly psychopathic. This psychopathy is present not only in the so-called "beat cops", but also in the command structure. It is dangerous and unhealthy system that simply cannot be sustained in a "free society". It's seriously broken and it needs to be seriously fixed. Making a few changes here and there is not going to do it. America's policing system must be torn down entirely and reinvented from the bottom up.
I am 2 months into my FTO process and I can tell you it is most definitely overwhelming at times. If you are considering this career certainly take all these things into consideration before you jump in!
I am a retired officer who spent 30 years since 1981 in my career. Loved it, best job in the world. Your videos are right on. Despite all the fake media garbage everyday people have no idea what the job is. Work graveyard, get off work at 7 am, get your daughter to school by 8:30 and be in court at 9. Then go home at noon and sleep for 3 hours before you have to pick your daughter up after school and entertain her, cook dinner and prepare to be at briefing at 7:30 and do it all again. Then these days, listen to all the spoiled know nothing media dependent idiots second guess everything you do when you know full well not one of them has the courage, commitment and drive to hold the job for two days. All respect to anyone who does the job these days... the public at large Does not deserve you.
This guy talking about not getting paid? The F? They get six figures most out here close to 200-300k. On top of that they moonlight as security for more $$$. Cops get paid A LOT. In shape bonus, access to low interest financing, robust health care, in house gyms or free membership to commercial gyms.
Where tf do you live where cops are making 200-300k. I don't even think the chief's or sherrif's themselves make that much anywhere within a 12 hour drive from where I live. A lot of them do get good benefits though, I'll give you that.
Pretty sure they do them on the clock. I think some do them towards the end of their shift(though I imagine that can be hard to remember the details about every call you responded to) and some may do them right after they've finished up a call.
95% of the time I’m doing them on shift. But there are those 5% times, every week, that I’m doing reports off duty when I get off shift so I come in clean for the next day.
I’ve watched this video awhile ago but I think a really good video that I can’t find anywhere on RU-vid is what it is like on a normal day as a police officer. Like a walkthrough. I know days can be crazy and have examples like in this video but I’ve done handful of ride alongs and most the time it was call or traffic stop paper work call or traffic stop paper work. going to apply for my city in the next couple months.
@3:59 you ask if you’re ready to take another person’s life. What makes the US so different that cops have to kill people but in Canada or England or Australia or any other “developed” country this just doesn’t happen?! It’s so frustrating and I don’t get it!!!
Those countries doesn’t have the same demographics, therefore same problem. Keep in interpersonal relations is what causes this to de-escalate or escalate.
@@shaawnstevens6505 assuming you mean ethnicity composition when you say demographics, I really don’t buy that differences in demography explain the ~1:1000 ratio disparity of cop killings between the US and other countries. If anything, your suggestion raises another question: why would our cop killing rates surpass even Syria, Nigeria, El Salvador, countries with super different demographies?
I'd honestly recommend for people wanting to go into law enforcement a good way to start out maybe just graduate high school and are looking for your first job or maybe you're in college right now Get into private security or public safety for a transit district or a college and work that job for a while They will give you a ton of great valuable skills and you'll know how to interact with all sorts of individuals from verbally aggressive to physically aggressive to passive aggressive just all sorts of people and the depending what agency you work with you'll get great training great pay and when you transition over to law enforcement You're going to stick out a lot when I did a ride along with a police agency the officer said most college applicants with not a lot of job experience do not make it that long The guys that they are most interested in getting are people who have private security or public safety experience because they tend to last longer and do a phenomenal job that's my recommendation if you're interested in going to law enforcement look into getting into private security start working start gaining experience and when the time is right make the move to law enforcement
First thing’s first - if you’re the type who grew up wanting be a cop, chances are you’re too myopic an individual for your vested “authority” to have a positive impact where it would otherwise count most.
When I graduate in a few years, I plan to go onto being a paramedic for 3 years, that way I'm 21 so I can join the West Virginia State Police. God bless, stay safe!
Thank you for this, actually. I've recently decided that I want to be a police officer in the future in the hopes of being able to do detective work as well. I'll admit, for the longest time I saw so many negatives about police officers in the media. I believed them for a long time. Now, I'm opening my eyes and educating myself on what it really means to be a police officer, the calls you have to make, the things you have to do, etc. I'm only in high school, I have a very long way to go, but these videos help a lot in showing the good and the bad of being a police officer. It really helps me lay down those past beliefs and realize what it really means to be a police officer and what it really means to help people, not just what the media portrays. Thank you for educating everyone, especially people like me who are young and want to go into this field of work.
I really my dream be a police officer in usa , and i hope i wish i achieve my dream in the lands of dreams , and really you make this idea go more inside my head ,
8:00 “Most importantly, are you prepared to lay your life down for this?” From 2021 to 2023, only 65 cops were killed in the line of duty on average yearly. There are 21 other careers with higher fatality rates in the US, such as crossing guards, loggers, highway maintenance, firefighters, delivery drivers, farmers, garbage collectors. But none of these careers’ representatives regularly tout the honorable, noble, emotionally appealing “lay your life down” line as cops do. Like imagine if a garbage collector came online informing their audience of their line of work and asked if they were prepared to lay their life down lmaooo
Everything you just said I won’t like but I know what I’m signing up for , I’m ready for the criticism we all get it either way good or bad doesn’t matter what it is there’s always someone who criticize you
No, there isn't a how to lie class in the academy, however I will admit that we may bluff when encountering citizens. Those who actually know their rights and the limits on what we can do call our bluff and we leave. Some dont
I love these videos man, appreciate you and what you do! I have my oral board interview coming up and I’m nervous but excited and I just hope I can get on as an officer! I won’t stop till I achieve this goal! Thank you for the helpful videos sir!
I've thought about what it takes to be a cop, and there is NO way I would have the patience. I'd probably be one of the "prick" officers, to be completely honest.
At least your honest. It isn't easy and there are many times where I'd like to give someone the what for, but I don't because that's what they want and you got to let it roll off and keep on keepin on. It builds on some officers and sometimes they let it out and it get's them into trouble.
Are you prepared for a guaranteed paycheck for the rest of your life, AND a guaranteed pension? Are you prepared to never follow another traffic law? Are you prepared to be protected from ANY criminal liability? Are you prepared to have authority over normies? Are you prepared to sell your soul?
