Thanks again all!
Taylor, I'm not new to the job. I've been doing this over 7 years now. I spent the first 6 years in north St.Louis. I have had plenty of experience on homicides, drive-bys, car jackings and so on. As a conservative estimate, i have probably written and handled 250 shootins.
Now I work in a civilized area. I work for a smaller dept. of 125 officers. I am in a much nicer area that took quite a while to realize that most people actually like having cops in the neighborhood loooking after them.
The way I explain the transition is " I now get paid alot more to do alot less, I get waved at with all 5 fingers instead of just one, people are actually happy to see me, and I'm not getting shot at on a regular basis.
Anyway, I gotta go home and go to bed. Gotta get up early to hide eater eggs for Lilly!
