Harleymsn
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I guess this would be a bit of a timely topic for me. In 24 days I will be turning in my badge after 25 years in law enforcement. I will then depart western New York for Tennessee! The original post was to make a comparison between city and country cops ... I have done both. My first 5 years as a deputy sheriff and the last 20 with a city police dept., I have worked nearly every segment of the job, from working in the jail, accident investigator, commercial vehicle enforcement, I have investigated drug cases and homicides and am going out as a patrol supervisor.
City and country officers act differently, and that is necessary due to the difference of citizens they deal with. Where a warning and a lecture may prove very effective to a country kid who was speeding on a 2 lane, the same results are unlikely with an inner city kid strung out on drugs. The home environment of the country folks is often far removed from that in the city.
The country kid with a 12 ga in the gun rack (probably for hunting) does not leave an officer with the same impression as the kid with the mac 10 in a shoulder rig. I had one of my young officers shot just a few months ago, and over the past 2 years we have had at least 25 instances of people shooting at our officers. I remember 1 incident in the 5 years while I was a deputy.
Bottom line, officers react based on what they face day in and day out. Those things may not happen in your area, but when your in a town or city where it is common ...expect the officers to repond to everyone the same way.
City and country officers act differently, and that is necessary due to the difference of citizens they deal with. Where a warning and a lecture may prove very effective to a country kid who was speeding on a 2 lane, the same results are unlikely with an inner city kid strung out on drugs. The home environment of the country folks is often far removed from that in the city.
The country kid with a 12 ga in the gun rack (probably for hunting) does not leave an officer with the same impression as the kid with the mac 10 in a shoulder rig. I had one of my young officers shot just a few months ago, and over the past 2 years we have had at least 25 instances of people shooting at our officers. I remember 1 incident in the 5 years while I was a deputy.
Bottom line, officers react based on what they face day in and day out. Those things may not happen in your area, but when your in a town or city where it is common ...expect the officers to repond to everyone the same way.