Originally Posted by
Endur
And what about money now?
You won't have any, get used to it.
As a supplier I'd offer this. If it's something that might save your life one day, (vest, firearm, shoes you can run in) and it's coming out of your pocket, buy the best you can that works the best for YOU. Things that are dept. issue you don't have much say in, but if you shoot Gun A much better than Gun B and both are approved, buy Gun A. Hopefully you'll never need it other than qualifications, hopefully you'll never need to test the structural integrity of your vest and hopefully you'll never need to speed test your feet because everything is going sideways fast...but if those things happen it's a lot more important than your choice of Peerless vs. S&W handcuffs.
Learn everything you can at the academy and from the experiences of other officers, but at the same time you are responsible for you, if something feels terribly wrong and everyone else is saying "it's not a problem and everything is under control" continue with your preparations for everything to go to shit without warning. You can always be wrong and buy the beers later, but NOTHING is worse than knowing you are right and letting a bunch of other guys talk you down from your posture and THEN everything goes to shit and you could have been in a position to shut it down as soon as it started.
You are responsible for you at the end of the day. Everything you say, do and even think. If the music suddenly stops, don't expect for anyone to save you a chair.
If you are lucky, you get to make some really bad people go away and if you are very, very lucky you get to help somebody who really needs it and they actually DO something with the opportunity you provided them.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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