Women shouldn’t be cops, there, I said it.
This also happened to an officer in Houston a couple of days ago at the Sonic Drive In in Humble, TX. He is 6’7” and an Army Ranger before he was a police officer. It upset him as well that he could not get served a meal in a country he has served all his life. Should he not be a cop either tough guy
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I dont agree. There are many women who do a good job policing. What we shouldn’t have is affirmative action in hiring.
I wasn't a cop, but was a Correctional Officer and Sergeant in NY State's prison system for 25 years...male prisons only. The job could be stressful, but unfortunately many of the male officers would leave work, and go sit in a bar, and talk about work the whole time. There is a high rate of alcoholism, divorce and suicide in that job, and I expect in police departments as well. Life expectancy of a C.O. when I began in 1980 was 58. That was the age I would be when I could retire. I vowed to myself that I would not die while working for New York State. I was already divorced with two kids to raise. Didn't drink, and I certainly wasn't suicidal, although I could have probably killed some of the administrators at the facility, and in Albany. I had my own interests outside the job that helped keep me sane. I worked on my degrees, studied the Civil War, traveled to the various battlefields, and did research at the National Archives, and other places. I shared my research with other people who published books. Got acknowledged in several, and got free signed copies too. And I just heard that a new book (Carrying the Colors - about Andrew Jackson Smith, a runaway slave from Kentucky who ended up in the 55th Mass.), will be coming out soon. Supposedly, the book is dedicated to me, and another historian from S.C. I'll be getting a signed copy of that too. I haven't done any Civil War research in years as my interests have moved to other historical periods, and I turned all my papers over to the National Guard Museum and Archives in Concord, Ma., several years ago. But it's been very satisfying to have gotten that recognition for all the work I did so many years ago when I was a lot younger.
You can't live, eat, and breathe a job in law enforcement/Corrections. You have to find something outside the job to help you cope with the a$$holes you have to work with, and for.