Good luck. Plan ahead for moral breaching moments. They’re going to have you destroy the stuff of homeless people. They’re going to have you pull people over because they “look suspicious”. They’re going to pressure you to lie to the public in service of police-community relations. And more. You cannot become a full police officer without these things happening because you have to go through a probationary period with an officer in “good standing”.
That period is where they separate the ones willing to conform to the department standard from the ones who will not stray from what they’ve learned in the academy or their own moral standards.
This is why ACAB.
That said, if you want to cross that line, be sure beforehand what you’re willing to do to maybe be the one guy who pushes the officer off of George Floyd. (And by maybe I mean you may never see that on your career, especially if you get marked as “too good” and stashed somewhere useful but harmless to them.)
Good luck. Plan ahead for moral breaching moments. They’re going to have you destroy the stuff of homeless people. They’re going to have you pull people over because they “look suspicious”. They’re going to pressure you to lie to the public in service of police-community relations. And more. You cannot become a full police officer without these things happening because you have to go through a probationary period with an officer in “good standing”.
That period is where they separate the ones willing to conform to the department standard from the ones who will not stray from what they’ve learned in the academy or their own moral standards.
This is why ACAB.
That said, if you want to cross that line, be sure beforehand what you’re willing to do to maybe be the one guy who pushes the officer off of George Floyd. (And by maybe I mean you may never see that on your career, especially if you get marked as “too good” and stashed somewhere useful but harmless to them.)