r/police

Title explains most of it. It was late and a empty road, i wasn’t distracted, i had the green light it hadn’t recently changed. I started into a 4 way intersection and a police officer was west and i was heading south. I didnt get cited, no warnings. Gwinett county now says i caused 31 thousand dollars to their police cruiser, my insurance only overs 25k. Should I talk to a lawyer? I called one and they said they didn't handle this type of case. The insurance company deemed it my fault so am i just fucked?

Last year I was arrested for domestic violence (even though my ex was breaking into my car and forcing me to drink while underage) I tried reporting the police officer, I spoke with lawyers and everyone said I shouldn't have been arrested that night and that the cop used very poor judgement. I couldn't afford a lawyer to fight the case so I took a diversion deal. I later found out they put the charges on the wrong name. I know to become a detective you have to be a patrol officer for at least 3 years. I know that dv charges can automatically disqualify you from becoming a cop. I'm asking the people of reddit because I dont want this charge to ruin my dreams and im hoping there's a way or there's a state that'll overlook these charges. I've attempted doing backgrounds checks on myself and employers cannot find any charges, not even the police investigator could find my charges till he tried looking me up with a different name (the one the charge got put on) so im not even 100% sure if I have any former dropped charges on my record. I googled it and it said because charges are associated with my social security number so they should still be able to see my charges. But that hasn't been the case for me.

I am 40 years old today and I heard NYPD is about to cut the age limit and allow people as old as 43 to join again soon. When I first heard the news I was looking forward to applying, but I am wondering if NYPD is still considered a prestigious police department today or not?

The reason I ask this is because I feel like I am living in a strange, changing world today, compared to what I remember over 25 years ago. We are about to hit the 25th anniversary of 9/11/01 and I was exactly 16 years old when this event happened. I lived through that day and remember it in full detail like it was yesterday. You have to understand that this event is what inspired many of my graduating highschool classmates to become first responders (military, police, fire), including myself. I served as a policeman for a city agency when I was in my early 20's. I always saw the NYPD as the premier police agency even before 9/11. Post 9/11, NYPD was like the most respected law enforcement agency to me, and its name is recognized around the world. There seems to be alot of honor in graduating as an NYPD officer and holding that badge. NYPD is the biggest LE agency in the USA and known for the best anti terrorism units. Historically this is how I have viewed NYPD growing up.

Today, I am confused if NYPD is still considered a prestigious police department today? The last few years all I have heard is that the NYPD is understaffed 35,000 today compared to 40,000 in 2001. I heard many officers left in droves during/after the pandemic/riots of 2020. I heard the officers are overworked with lots of OT due to shrinking department, the pay is not even that great considering the high cost of living in NYC (will that improve is a mystery). All the hype I keep hearing about is how many cops in these cities up north are fleeing to southern states like texas or florida where they (supposedly do more "real" police work or let you do it).

This just confuses the heck out of me. do you still consider NYPD a prestigious police department today and would you join or am I living in the past and those days are long gone? what agency is considered the most prestigious today if its no longer nypd?

I've been watching a bunch of older crime movies and I'm loving all the cool tropes that they keep repeating over and over again. Things like:
"You're suspended, hand over your gun and your badge."
"The feds are breathing down my neck!"
"I hate to pull rank, but..."
"Ya got no jurisdiction here!"
"Meet yer new partner, newly transferred from XYZ precint"
"Special Agent John Smith, FBI, I'm taking over this investigation! You boys in blue should stick to your doughnuts and stay outta my way!" * followed by a fight where the protagonist cop breaks the FBI agent's nose *

So which movie tropes about the police would you say are the most and the least realistic, not necessarily from the list above.

Can or do police forensics drive cars with lights if they don’t do police trainings and aren’t technically patrol officers?

Firstly I am police sargeant at Royal Thai police in tourist police division and currently on my 9th years in active service

One of my childhood dream is owning ‘Sam Browne’ type duty belt..which is literally non-existence here (we mostly had Chinese knockoffs brands….the only part that genuine on my belt is my gun holster is Safariland’s holster ) my currently duty belt is Boogie1 a Thai’s knockoff that’s cost around 20$ or 600 baht here

Now onto question …which brands that you guys can recommend me ?
My dad brought me perfect fit brands for trying it first before i can move up to better branding duty belt

Thank fellow officers!!!

As title suggests, I’ve been considering joining for a bit now but I have a few questions I was hoping could get advice on before deviling straight into it. My biggest thing is that I have some health issues I’m hoping to get better managed here sooner than later. One biggest one is an autoimmune disease which has yet to be named yet (I have a wait list for Mayo sometime next year). Being this it causes an array of other symptoms ranging from moderate to difficult to deal with. My hope is that once my health issues are more resolved I can work on them properly to better manage my health. As such, I was wondering if there is anything I should be studying/working on, physically, or as course work, to prep myself between now and then for when I can hopefully see if I’ll get accepted in. Thank you! Oh, as per rules (not sure of matters in this type of post) but if so, my state is Georgia.

there’s a fairly new police officer in my small town of 400 people that parks very close to my house with multiple views into the house windows. plus he’s randomly shown up at the local dollar general whenever i’m there and waits around in the store until im in line and then magically appears in line behind me. last time he did this, he was standing so close in line to me that i turned around and looked him directly in his eyes and said “hey” in a you need to back up kind of way and he was like “hey how’re you”. i don’t like this guy as a cop who’s supposed to be “protecting the community” and i don’t like him as a person. i really need advice on what i should do bc i hate feeling fearful in my own hometown.

I’ve started the application for my local police department and I’m worried about the polygraph questions regarding drug use. I have an old prescription for tramadol and Valium and I’ve used like a 1/4 of a pill like 3-4 times under the influence of my parents in the past 5 years after I hurt my back working construction. I can’t recall if the pills were from my prescription or my parents old prescription. My Mom is a pharmacy tech so I just always took what she gave me. I’ve also given one 1/4 of a pill to my gf after she hurt her back and was screaming and crying laying in her bed and I couldn’t bear to see it. I’ve been loosing sleep worrying about these. How cooked am I.

Is one organization above another, if there is or if there were, a real or hypothetical organizational hierarchy?

I’m a 21 year old male, currently serving as a 68W in the army. I have ~3.5 years left until ETS. If anybody could give me any suggestions on what to do with my time now to best set me up to end up in SWAT in Texas or Florida. I would greatly appreciate it

Why do police dogs only work with one handler at a time? Wouldn’t it save money to switch them back and forth between officers working and keep them always in service?

I am currently in the academy and feel like I will be behind when I start FTO. What are some things that I should actually be focusing on now to better prepare for FTO and become the best possible officer when I hit the streets? Thank you!

News coverage + the majority of threads on r/AskLE and r/AskLEO give me the impression that cops are broadly sympathetic to the use of Flock cameras. Tell me why you support them, I’ll tell you why I do not, and maybe we can inform each other a least a little bit.

I dont know if the requirements are the same everywhere, but for my city its expected that you'll be running 8 miles basically everyday in academy. (Or so ive been told)

For the slower of yall, how did you increase your running speed and endurance?

Right now im doing light pole training. (First lightpole run as fast you can, next recoup and go slow, repeat)