Originally Posted by KJ2007

I think being a police officer is one of the most thankless jobs in our country. These are the people who help you when you're in trouble, go into dangerous situations with criminals, and who help to enforce the laws. Someone driving nearly 90 mph in a 65 zone could kill someone - not worth shaving off 5 minutes in your drive to work.

On top of this, it's not a particularly well paid job. You get to deal with the dregs of society, and attitudes such as the ones we have read on this thread.

A shame really - I for one would like to say thank you to these individuals. Lord knows they contribute more to society through their work than I do, and they put up with a lot of crap for their contribution.

Originally Posted by Ray

Remembering of course it take 40 hours of filming to get 23 minutes for cops ...
and many a US cop have done 25 years service ..
and never drawn their gun ...

Originally Posted by leachy99

I am a british police officer who wants to transfer to the USA. It seems on the US recruitment sites that I have seen it states that only US citizens can apply although I am aware of cases where people have transferred to the US from GB. I have a degree which I understand may help - can anybody help me and let me know how I can make this happen?

Regards Chris L

Originally Posted by Ray

Remembering of course it take 40 hours of filming to get 23 minutes for cops ...
and many a US cop have done 25 years service ..
and never drawn their gun ...

Originally Posted by Silly Sod

Can you speak spanish by any chance? Baltimpore PD are quite aggressively recruiting officers from Puerto Rico because they need more spanish speakers to deal with the large Hispanic community there. I am not sure how it works but I am assuming that there is some way around to immigration thing. Apparenty they earn 53k a year. You would have to speak american type spanish of course. Maybe a CD and get learning?

Originally Posted by tamms_1965

Puerto Rico is an American territory. Puerto Ricans are American citizens. They already have unrestricted travel in the U.S. just like citizens that live int he States

Originally Posted by KJ2007

I think being a police officer is one of the most thankless jobs in our country. These are the people who help you when you're in trouble, go into dangerous situations with criminals, and who help to enforce the laws. Someone driving nearly 90 mph in a 65 zone could kill someone - not worth shaving off 5 minutes in your drive to work.

On top of this, it's not a particularly well paid job. You get to deal with the dregs of society, and attitudes such as the ones we have read on this thread.

A shame really - I for one would like to say thank you to these individuals. Lord knows they contribute more to society through their work than I do, and they put up with a lot of crap for their contribution.

Originally Posted by DMKH

agree with your post KJ2007
my husband and I watch Cops a lot. we both agree we're too selfish to ever be cops ourselves, but are thankful they're there

Originally Posted by tamms_1965

Thank goodness, you do not need to be here. And BTW, all police are not like that, even having to deal with a lawbreaker like you Hopefully, you will not need them to help you out before you leave.
You seem to have little respect for anything just because things didn't go as you had hoped. My hubby worked as a civilian for the police in England and is in the interview stage for a civilian job here with our city police. He (and I) have great respect for the police in both countries. He is very impressed with our community's police force and really hopes to get the job.

Originally Posted by KJ2007

Agree - though Cops is not the best representation of a typical day on the job as Ray points out. (Thank God!) Still - if that work needs to be done - that's who is called to do it!

I'd be too much of a chicken myself.

Originally Posted by penguinsix

My father was a college professor in education, basically teaching teachers. On his syllabus every year was 'Cops Week' where he would show the students a 10-15 minute snippet of Cops, with some wife beater and his heroin-addicted wife getting busted, and then the class would discuss "How best to have a parent-teacher conference with a person like this?"

He said it was quite instructional for helping teachers with the communication skills they would need with some parents.

Originally Posted by DMKH

totally embarrassed that l-s-h said stuff like he did in this thread

Originally Posted by Dogbyte

The fun of the job is demeaning people

Originally Posted by lapin_windstar

If your positive opinion of cops is based on Cops, you'll believe any old cack. It's a very one-dimensional, contextless entertainment show, and there's a reason it's scheduled opposite WWE.

Being a police officer isn't even one of the ten most dangerous jobs in the US, but there are not $10,000 rewards available for e.g. crooked roofing contractors that kill their employees through negligence. http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/26/pf/jobs_jeopardy/

Apart from the tedium of dealing with moron "clients" all day, almost just as bad would be dealing with the cops all day.

If you're not already a cop here, it sounds like you'd fit in nicely.

Originally Posted by CaliforniaBride

Shall we repeat that again for the hard of reading?