When I was in my early 20’s I went to a part time academy and was hired as a reserve officer at a small department- each shift had 2 patrol officers and a Sergeant. I have big time anxiety but thought I could get past it. Anyways, I only lasted a few months. I couldn’t get past my own anxiety.
I wish I could.
Do you guys get excited when you catch a speeder or get dispatched to a call or is it just another day on the job?
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The novelty wears off but it sure beats a day in an office
First year on, yeah sure it’s exciting. You don’t know what you’re getting into when you stop someone. After getting some experience, not really. You can typically guess what’s going to happen before you rip the stop.
If it’s something I see that pisses me off in my personal car like riding the shoulder in traffic, weaving, doing 100, yes I love stopping and ticketing those aholes when I catch them during work hours
Eventually, it becomes another day in the office… But even at year 25, I always enjoyed stopping someone who did something totally egregious.
The novelty wears off pretty fast except for good traffic stops. Like getting warrants on traffic stops I enjoy, or searching cars. It’s like fishing. You don’t always catch a fish but sometimes you catch a fuckin trophy, like finding a gun or someone with decent warrants. It’s usually just failures to appear tho.
I personally hate doing traffic stops mainly because in my experience, it feels like a waste of time. The people that need to be getting pulled over know that we can’t pursue and just won’t pull over. So a good majority of the people who do pull over are just regular law abiding people who don’t really need to be hassled by me.
Personally no. Though I wrote ticket as a CO so it’s different.
I never liked giving out tickets and would rather have a conversation about why the actions were wrong. I don’t want to ruin anyone’s financial situation plus I’ve been homeless and I know the struggle. It’s different in a prison though. If I were on the streets it would definitely be different but I just know in prison the government takes a lot from you so I tend to show empathy.
Sir, I am a trooper.
Asking if I like traffic stops is like asking a crackhead if he enjoys the subtle art of smoking rock.
I live for it.
I’m currently a motor officer for a municipal PD. Tickets are my bread and butter.
I never did traffic stops unless I absolutely had to. It was generally a waste of time compared to being free for radio runs. Nearly all of my tickets were from crashes.
Probably like 90% of my actual stops were DUIs or Felonies, and both had a high chance of being annoying.
Not really. When I was working in a city, yes. Guns, drugs, stolen cars, and people were assholes.
Working in a small town with no crime, no. Most people are overly polite, respectful, and apologetic about whatever I’ve stopped them for.
Between 11pm-4am, yes.
Between 4am-7am, no.