I'm a 25 year old white dude in decent shape (5'11, a strong 190) with a charismatic demeanor and a soft spot for people in trouble.

My family has a pretty colorful history when it comes to drugs and mental illness which I have thankfully navigated quite well and become a well adjusted blue collar man, I do pretty well as an HVAC mechanic but I want to do work that really makes a difference for people.

Big issue is that I'm pretty libertarian and don't like the idea of policing to protect corporate interests over policing to protect the people, thankfully where I live I shouldn't be too much of an issue.

Is it worth becoming a cop these days?

Pays around 70 - 90k. Shit hours. Can he life threatening. It'll be a lot of stress until you adjust to it or don't find ways to cope in a healthy manner.
Not like you can't quit if you hate it though.

>>33240074 (OP)
your starry-eyed romanticism is very detached from what the job actually is.

>>33240088
Sounds like my current job honestly...

>>33240211
I'm fully aware, I want to know the reality of the job a bit more before I make any kind of decisions. I'm well aware that I'd see some grim things and have to do things I don't morally agree with, what's an average day like?

>>33240074 (OP)
Its a respectable and necessary profession that pays a living wage, but it has a lot of drawbacks, such as an unstable schedule that makes maintaining long term relationships difficult, high stress job, constantly dealing with shitty people warps your view of society, a mistake at work can be literally life or death, and there is a lot of tedium. Can you go a bit more into detail about why you want to become a cop?

>>33240242
Get into work. Sergeant tells you your area for the day and goes over whatever they got to.
Get in your car, radio in to dispatch that you're starting patrol.
Drive around your assignment.
Dispatch sends you a domestic dispute.
You go there and pull some guy off his wife. She says she doesn't want to press charges or anything. You make a note of that and radio it in and leave after he stops hitting for her 10 minutes.
Get a call from dispatch about some homeless guy smearing shit on the street. So you go pick him up and drop him off at the border of the next town. Their problem now.
Eat a donut because lol.
Pull some guy over for speeding. He bitches about it the entire time.
Oh, times up. Radio dispatch you're finishing patrol.
Go to the station and write reports for the shit you did.
Go home.

>>33240074 (OP)
No. Get a motorcycle.

why anyone would become a bootlicker?

>>33240266
>but it has a lot of drawbacks, such as an unstable schedule that makes maintaining long term relationships difficult,
I'm used to this, unfortunately. Thankfully my wife has been accommodating over the years.

>high stress job,
Same here

>constantly dealing with shitty people warps your view of society,
Been dealing with shitty people my whole life, was raised by the dregs of society that's part of the reason why I want to make a difference out there.

>a mistake at work can be literally life or death, and there is a lot of tedium.
Unfortunately used to these as well, work on industrial equipment in the hood is a sketchy game.

>Can you go a bit more into detail about why you want to become a cop?
I want to help people find a better way to live, do something about the drugs that destroyed so many of my loved ones and keep innocent people safe. I had a really bad childhood, and instead of perpetuating that cycle I want to help others break it themselves.

>>33240405
Why a motorcycle?

>>33240461
It'll make you feel alive and break up the tedium of your typical routine. You don't need to be a cop to find fulfillment anon.

>>33240594
>It'll make you feel alive and break up the tedium of your typical routine. You don't need to be a cop to find fulfillment anon.
My routine is pretty varied, my job bounces between the same old thing for days at a time to days of crazy urgent happenstance that nobody could predict. Personal life is anything but tedious, always something going on somewhere.

I do want a bike to be honest with you, but just for dicking around on; maybe a Grom.

>>33240452
>I want to help people find a better way to live, do something about the drugs that destroyed so many of my loved ones and keep innocent people safe
Yeah cops don't do any of that. The Supreme Court literally said they don't have to serve the public at all. My city's cops may show up 1-3 hours late to a call, but are always 100% on-time for protestors exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

>>33240074 (OP)
>I'm a 25 year old white
No. If you want to get Chauvin'd, be my guest.

>>33240615
I'm Canadian, not American if that makes a difference.

I feel for you guys down there, our leadership sucks too but you guys have it particularly rough.

>>33240619
Long as I don't knee on anyones neck I should be in the clear then?

>>33240656
>Long as I don't knee on anyones neck I should be in the clear then?
Oh, you're one of those. Carry on then.

>>33240074 (OP)
Cops aren't there to 'make a difference', they're there to enforce the law. You will deal with potentially violent retards all day every day.

I'd hate to be a police officer.

>>33240681
>Oh, you're one of those
yeah he's not a spiteful incel

>>33240656
Nta, but Chauvin proved in court that kneeling on the back of the neck was literally the way cops in his jurisdiction were trained to detain suspects. He literally did it by rhe book. The coroner's report showed that there was no significant injuries to Floyd, and that Floyd had a congenital heart defect. Chauvin's defense managed to get the prosecutor's witness, a medical doctor, to disclose that Floyd's blood oxygen saturation was 98 percent and that therefore he could not have possibly died of suffocation (or asphyxia). Lastly, the toxicology report showed that Floyd had a concentration of fentanyl in his blood serum far above the fatal dose, in addition to methamphetamines and cocaine. If you're a white cop, some retarded shitskin lowlife killing themselves in your general vicinity can land you in prison for 20+ years.

>>33240909
You should join the force too.
>>33241000
Don't bother, these people live in fantasyland.

>>33241006
Its just still so fucking unbelievable to me how completely NPCs outsource any and all thinking. Chauvin's case was an easy open-and-shut, slam-dunk verdict of "not guilty" and the fact that NPCs refuse to accept this just because the pied pipers lead them elsewhere is nothing short of baffling.

>>33240088
>Pays around 70 - 90k
lmao maybe 25 years ago when it was honest work

every single officer is "discovering" enough OT to clear $120-150k these days, on top of however much disappears from drug seizures on the weekly

>>33241257
>Its just still so fucking unbelievable to me how completely NPCs outsource any and all thinking.
These are the same cattle who shut down the world for three years because of a flu that was treated like the black plague.