| As officer's age and gain more experience...they | | | | or at least the beginning of the end of |
| often find themselves in the midst of an ever | | | | "professional courtesy" is upon us as well. |
| changing world of technology, laws, training and | | | | Young, educated, already technology advanced |
| equipment. I remember when I first started our | | | | recruits are looking at my generation thinking the |
| we were the first real generation that did not | | | | same thing I thought so many years ago. But it's |
| even consider carrying a wheel gun as a duty | | | | important to realize that all these changes are not |
| weapon. We would look at veteran officers and | | | | only inevitable, but good for our profession and |
| their revolvers as dinosaurs that needed to | | | | good for our safety. We must always look |
| change. I told myself that I would never have a | | | | toward the future and be able change as things |
| problem with adapting to new things because we | | | | improve. |
| had the latest and greatest equipment and little | | | | I didn't realize that little things, such as ASP |
| would change over the course of my career. Boy | | | | batons had even changed so much until one of |
| was I wrong! | | | | my rookie's ask me if mine still worked. Don't |
| Since my rookie year, I have seen the likes of | | | | become a dinosaur, make the little change and |
| major adaptations to the job. Now we have | | | | keep up with the learning curve..you will be glad |
| computers in the cars, our pistols have "rails" on | | | | you did... |
| them to add laser sights and flashlights, we have | | | | I gott run now...I have racial profiling to enter on |
| GPS in our cars that tell dispatch were we are at | | | | my laptop while my camera records my every |
| all times, and the innovative "OC Spray" is fastly | | | | move and my GPS tell me how to get to the |
| becoming obsolete with the invention of the | | | | next call.... |
| Taser. Racial profiling stats, civil liability and the end | | | | |