bigred1cav
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AstroRig57 wrote:2nd generation Peace Officer. BS Criminal Justice Admin. 20 years on the job. Medically retired (reluctantly) as Lieutenant after almost breaking my neck in an on-duty incident (two herniated discs, fractured vertebrae, surgery and rehabilitation).
I say "Peace Officer", instead of LEO, intentionally and to emphasize what was the philosophy on my watch. "Use your head. If, at the end of the shift, you have kept the peace, and prevented harm from coming to yourself, your partner, another officer, and members of the public, you have done your job well and fulfilled the first tenant of your commission." In other words, don't have a high "PPO" quotient.
DW has a BSN, Registered Nurse in CCL's with much expertise in EP. She worked as a flight nurse on the East Coast in her "youth". What is the chemistry with "cops and nurses" anyhow?
Astro, I've had the LEO/PO discussion with a friend of mine from Richmond, Va. PD. When I was on job in olden days, (hit the street April Fools Day 1967) we did law enforcement, no illusions of social work, although we probably did more social work in a week than a Social Worker did in a year. If you recall hose times, the USA was at war in Vietnam and on the streets of our cities. we rode 2 man cars and patrolled some areas with a wing man. Riots at Universties and neeighborhoods were common place. We also had a riot at the Ohio Penatentury, that was a barrel of laughs.
As for the nurses and comradary with LEO/FF I think it is being so close to death all the time and the just knowing someone else has the same emotions and hides them as well as you do. Plus the ER's alaways has copious amounts of coffee and sometimes one of the nurse angles will bring brownies etc.
Had a bad guy in ER onr night Doc ask me to uncff him for trestment I argues he was a bad guy that would kill them and rape the RN's. DOC won, so he could treat perp. Perp ask me what I'd do if he ran? I told him I'd him with 5 in the back before he gotmthrough the curtain. RN ask if I was serious I said yes this guy had murderred a family of 4 and was not going back on m y street.
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bigred1cav
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f.wernlein wrote:27 years...LEO. Retired for 6 months and drifted into a school security job...same calendar as my kids and summers off to rv!!!
Ahh...GM police cars! God those mid 80's Impalas were fine handling and fast cars!!! Too bad the new generation will be driving something like a police prius or something electric...my generation burned up all the oil!
Brother, we had Plmouth Fury with 440 Hemi engines got 6 mph,could smoke the tires, and ran like a terpentined dog. Ohio retired due to injuries in '84.
I still miss it full contact sport and most fun you can have with your clothes on.
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Cloud Dancer wrote:I retired from a job flying international Lifeguard flights, transporting accident victims and critically ill patients.
My medical crew, in a LearJet 35A ambulance:
You're so beautiful I'd get shot again if you would take care of me.
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37 years as a volunteer National Ski Patroller (awarded National #4482 - retired 2003 - remain a lifetime member). When a skier/rider crashed we were there to perform emergency first aid from CPR to bandaids. Our motto "You Fall, We Haul" and "You Crash, We Dash". We were trained to evacuate people from chair lifts, extract skiers/riders from the woods and more than once extract them when they slid under snowing making pipes. Training started out with the Red Cross Advanced First Aid and advanced to OEC. Now the National Ski Patrol has its own Outdoor Emergency Care (OEC) program. The only thing we don't do is to give aspirin or IV's. I handled drunks, alcohol poisoning, people on drugs, lots of blood from road/snow "rash" and evacuating chair lifts.
For about 10 years I taught new candidates skiing and toboggan handling. Was a Not a full time paid job, but really rewarding by helping the skiing public. Even the snot nosed, back talking teens....
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I was juvy officer for a few months couldn't stand the little &*%$##@$. Had a strong urge to stifle their growth permenatly so I was transferred to rob/hom. Bodies are better than teenagers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Merrykalia
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Quote:I was juvy officer for a few months couldn't stand the little &*%$##@$. Had a strong urge to stifle their growth permenatly so I was transferred to rob/hom. Bodies are better than teenagers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was SRO (School Resource Officer) for 7 years and LOVED IT!!! If they would have let me pick 10 students out each year and sent them "SOMEWHERE", we wouldn't have had any problems.
The good news about that was that if something happened, I pretty much knew who did it - not that many "hoodlums" to choose from.
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Retired Batt.Chief/Paramedic with Fire Dept., currently volunteer assistant Chief with local dept. Firesheep
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Do not know if I responded to this thread or not.. Michigan State Police dispatcher for over a quarter century.. Yes, I got paid (And still do) to tell cops where to go (Only now I don't have to tell 'em where to go anymore)
I used to say my job was helping folks sleep better at night.
The law abiding could sleep better knowing that, for example. the auto thief my skill caught was sleeping in jail.
The auto thief could sleep better cause he did not have to worry about "the Man" slapping his sorry behind in the slammer.
So I helped folks sleep better.
And quite a few, specifically car thieves owed their change of status to my skill.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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DW retired last January after 35 years in LE, the last 22 as Chief of Police, now he's starting out each day with nothing to do, and has most of it done by bedtime.
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Retired Sgt. from a Calif. sheriffs Dept. 4 years ago, actually worked at 2 departments in my time. Before that a volunteer firefighter/EMT. Even did a stint as the chief, waaay too much politics for me though. I don't think I could succesfully work a regular job now even if I wanted to,there wouldn't be enough excitment to hold my interest.
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