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PO3 Ricky Foster
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Even when I was a cop I traveled 50 miles to go to a bar in hopes of not "bumping" into anyone I had arrested. I carried my weapon in until I saw it was all clear. If I started drinking I took my weapon and secured it in my car. Never drink while armed, never. If you can;t let go of your weapon, let go of the bottle.
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MSG Andrew White
MSG Andrew White
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Man! I got into more fights with guys I locked up!! Always at the bar or enroute there! Lol
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SMSgt Thor Merich
SMSgt Thor Merich
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We had a unwritten rule in SoCal, "Never sh*t where you sleep." So very few cops actually lived where they worked. The downside is that it made for some long commutes to work for most of us. Even the chief of police didn't live in town and I worked in a nice area. As I travelled the country, it was interesting to learn that everywhere else in the US, it was the opposite.
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PO3 Ricky Foster
PO3 Ricky Foster
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SMSgt Thor Merich - That seems odd to me as we were required to live in the county we worked in. Made things rough sometimes, but many off duty Deputies were our back up as we were a rural county. Large area few Deputies.
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SMSgt Thor Merich
SMSgt Thor Merich
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When I first got hired, back in the mid 1980's, they just rescinded the rule about living in the city. I was one of the few guys hired that was not born and raised in the city. As time went on, fewer and fewer officers lived in town. Some of it was created because we couldn't afford to live there due to the high price of housing. However, with few officers actually living there it did create a problem in which officers were not connected to the community like in the past.
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
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remember common sense is not so common lol
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PO3 Steven Sherrill
PO3 Steven Sherrill
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SGT (Join to see) - The box that was supposed to be underneath reads
Common Sense-
So rare, it's a fucking superpower.

I don't know why the demotivational part didn't come through.
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LTC Stephen C.
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SGT (Join to see), if one is going to be drinking alcohol, don't carry!
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