I left it over two decades ago when I saw the writing on the wall. And it wasn't over fake accusations from hoodlums and other professional victim groups, but from WITHIN the department. That's what affirmative action has done to this country.
I could see intimate small towns being decent places to work in law enforcement, but those are becoming increasingly rare.
Me too, I left back in the end of the 90’s. I could see what was changing and was from the inside and government idiots that I ran from.
In every officer survival course friends have attended, it’s long been postulated that the majority of job-related stress cops experience comes from the department itself.