I use my gun. My partner tends to shoot off his mouth, and then I have to save his ass using my gun, so it all works out ( Read more... )

Oddly, I've never been injured in the thirty years I've been on the job. My late husband used to say that I was the proverbial duck with the water rolling off its back. Nothing seems to stick to me - insults, injuries... I suppose he was right.

Talk about the worst injury you've ever had on the job. Whether it be a physical or emotional blow... or both!

And this appears to be yet another question that I simply don't want to talk about.

Whether it's a case, a court room, a morgue, in the lab, etc... Whether it's because you aren't allowed to or can't or shouldn't, whether you're training someone else or even watching it on television, how does it feel to watch someone else do your job?

I'm worse than a backseat driver.  Enough said.

How did you get where you are today professionally? Did you always want to do the job you do now? Did you just fall into it? Do you have dreams of promotion? Another profession?

Before I joined the Army, I was thinking about working for the FBI within their Behavioral Analysis Unit.  It's naturally a good fit for me.  I had high goals for myself and ( Read more... )

Alcoholism is big with law enforcement.  Do you drink?  A lot?  Are you an alcoholic?  Why?  What parts of the job are connected to it?  Or is it all personal?  Talk about it!

[locked down tighter than the White House on 9/11]

The longer I belong to this community, the subjects become more and more sensitive and I find that I have less and less to ( Read more... )

Talk about what your badge/certification/degree/etc means to you.

My badge:  It means the world to me.  Like a lot of other people in the law enforcement profession, I'm a workaholic.  It's obvious to the people I work with that if I couldn't work, I wouldn't know what to do with myself.  That little gold plated piece of metal is my livelihood.

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I've never been shot ( Read more... )

Most of you have been hurt before on the job. Let's hear about a memorable one... or two or a dozen injuries you've had.About a year and a half ago, my partner and I get this case involving a dead fireman who's been stabbed 22 times. The fireman also happens to be gay. We pretty strongly believe at the time that prejudices within the FDNY have ( Read more... )

Yes, I've been shot on the job.

I got shot in the ass.

Go ahead, let the mockery begin.