The things they don't teach you in the academy, that you have to learn on your own.
1. divorce rates are around 70% higher than the National average.
2. suicide rates are 3 times the National average, that's around on the average of 300 per year.
3. domestic volence are around the highest of most professions.
4. highest sleep disorders of most professions.
5. The highest heart problems of most professions.
6. highest risk of exposure to critcal incidents.
I could go on and on, not counting pulling a child from a car that has been killed, or anyone as far as that is concern. Then you go home and sleep with that.
Then there is the pressures from within, not counting having to deal with everyone's else's problems.
Your a butt hole if you write a ticket, which most officers don't like to do anyway, and your someone's best friend when they are in danger.
You make decisons within a few seconds, like no other profession.
Then comes the fear of being killed, or killing someone else.
Then there's the scheduling of work and irregalar work demands, resulting in disruption of one's family's life.
Then there comes the low pay scale, that they do it for anyway.
And then comes retirement that most of them that lives that long, their life spam is usually about 5 years after that.
Then there is the burned out that most of them go through around the 10th or so year.
But is has improved some since the 70's you can read that here http://www.nleomf.org/facts/enforcement/
Goodness why do they do it for, I once was told by an officer of old, either they were beat up on while in grade school, or they are are just plain crazy, if not the second one may happen sooner or later, LOL
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