( Spoilers for CSI:NY episode 5.06 - Enough )

Sometimes you just have to laugh. Ever break down and laugh on the job? Something make you smile when it really shouldn't have? Talk about a time when you just couldn't help yourself.Danny and I worked this case back in late February - some guy killed his wife and her boyfriend in their hotel room and tried to make it look like a double-suicide. He ( Read more... )

Ever have a bizarre, unexplainable case/client/situation on the job? Has anything ever just been too weird or uncomfortable for you?Now, I know I have not experienced anything nearly as unusual as the cases Lieutenant Murphy, Agent Mulder, or Agent Scully have worked with... but then again there are several different kinds of "weird ( Read more... )

Talk about the worst injury you've ever had on the job. Whether it be a physical or emotional blow... or both!Technically my worst injury wasn't on the job as in being on-duty. Technically I was off-duty when it happened, but... I consider it to be on the job ( Read more... )

Give a man power, he's bound to abuse it. Have you ever had to arrest a dirty cop? How did it make you feel?

No, I have yet to arrest or turn in a dirty cop. And I am grateful for that every day.

Most horrible experience with your partner.Lying on my back in an alley, in a pool of my own blood while my lung collapsed and the bastard who stabbed me went into shock from the gunshot to his shoulder. The fear in Don's eyes while I was dying and he tried to stop the bleeding. When the paramedics loaded me into the bus and he promised to meet me ( Read more... )

Talk about what your badge means to you."The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is the duty of the living to do so for them." -Louis McMaster Bujold ( 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?There are plenty of reasons why psychologists connect high rates of divorce and alcoholism to police work, but I'm on painkillers and antibiotics and I'm tired, so I'll spare you the details ( Read more... )

How far would you go for your partner/colleague?

That is a difficult question. I would protect them with my life, and stand by them through anything as long as they are clean.

I will do almost anything for them, but dishonoring my badge is never an option.

Have any of you had a protective detail placed on yourself or your family? Against your will or otherwise?

How do you deal with the frustration and helplessness that comes with it?