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I was a police officer at Naval Training Center San Diego for 3 years. I found that as a Police Officer that I was more often than not dealing with assholes. I always gave 5mph over the speedlimit and maybe more depending on the situation, our main job is to be a deterrent if a person was speeding saw us and slowed to the speed limit we did our job we made them aware of their driving. But my big problem is when you stopped someone for speeding 35 in a 25 or what ever it may have been, and no one would take responsibility for their actions. I was always wrong or my equipment was faulty, etc.. Then there is the times we observed a fight at the base club and arrested the persons involved and we are wrong for doing our job. Then the base commander says we have to do a vehicle search for 2 hours at gate 1 checking every 5th vehicle. We go do our job and we are "profiling, picking on, or whatever other thing the people we stopped could come up with.
I am almost always a very upbeat person and very outgoing, but it got to the point after only 6-8 months on the job that I hated dealing with the public, the people who called us when something went wrong then treated us like shit when we got there. I got tired of people not shutting the hell up and just accepting that they got caught speeding etc. and just let me do my job.
I was so glad when my tour was up and I went back to my regular job in the Navy. It definetly gave me a new respect for what a Police officer has to deal with on a day-to-day basis and I will never go back to that profession.
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