Do you know anyone who is a cop? Let me tell you about my buddy's first week on the job as a police officer in what most would consider a small town with low c

Do you know anyone who is a cop? Let me tell you about my buddy's first week on the job as a police officer in what most would consider a small town with low crime. Keep in mind that prior to this he was a school teacher. On his second day, a single-car car accident. Three young girls in the car, one had her brains hanging out of her head, one was halfway through the window mangled, bloody and dead, and the third was thrown from the vehicle and was "fucked up pretty bad". He said he could see her ribs where the skin had been torn away. Drunk driver, speeding, no seat belts. Guess who gets to deals with that shit? A few nights later, a woman calls the police on her husband. He's a vet with PTSD and she tells the cops he took his guns and wanted to kill a cop. An APB is put out on his car but before the police found it there was a call about a guy walking around in a park with a riffle. So the police surrounded the park and went hunting for the guy. Now my buddy, who a year ago was teaching kids in a prep school is walking through the woods where a trained soldier is looking to kill him. At the same time, 15 police officers are all converging from different vectors and trying not to shoot each other in the confusion. After searching the woods they find his parked car and surround it. They can see him sitting in the front seat and tell him to put his hands up. He never complies. He never complies because he's already blown his brains out. My buddy got to see that too. Can you imagine what dealing with this stuff does to your mind? It gets better. When they get to his wife's house to tell her that her husband is dead she says "Good, how?" Perplexed my buddy said "He shot himself in the head in his car." Her response: "The car? That fucking bastard". Can you imagine? I live in a nice place. I had no idea this kind of crap goes on. This didn't even get a mention in the paper. My point is, you don't know what the police do on a daily basis. And you don't even know how much you don't know. There are no superheroes out there, but most cops are the closest things we have to them. You should totally join. It sounds like you'd make it all look easy.