Ask Freerollin` about 10 years in Law Enforcement

[Freerollin`]

I've been in law enforcement for 10 years, and just left the profession.

After college, I was a police officer. Because of all the time I spent in courtrooms, I was able to watch prosecutors try a large number of cases, and decided that I wanted to go to law school and become a prosecutor.

I went to law school part time for one year while still working as a police officer. I then resigned from that job and attended law school full time, while working for another prosecutor's office part time as an investigator/law clerk.

After graduating law school, I took a job as at a prosecutor's office and have worked there for a couple years. I resigned recently to work in the private sector

Ask away.

BTW, 2 rules:

1) I'm not going to advise anyone about personal situations.
2) I'm not going to respond to what I perceive to be flames. buriedbeds, this means you.

[Wynton]

I'm a criminal defense attorney. Do most cops have a particular attitude towards defense attorneys? Did your attitude towards them change over the years?

[Freerollin`]

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I'm a criminal defense attorney.

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I know. You seem very intelligent.

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Do most cops have a particular attitude towards defense attorneys?

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The good ones (98%) realize that you're an integral part of the criminal justice system. The bad ones don't

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Did your attitude towards them change over the years?

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No, it didn't change over the years. I've always known that criminal defense attorneys protect the rights guaranteed in the constitution more than anyone else - judges included. Without them, the government would become tyrannical because no one would be there for protection.

[buriedbeds]

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2) I'm not going to respond to what I perceive to be flames. buriedbeds, this means you.

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Damn! I saw the title and I was getting all worked up at the prospect. Foiled!

Incidentally, I'm currently working to join you on the other side of the bar. No, not as a criminal (hopefully). I've got no quarrel with lawyers (except the ambulance chasers, of course). So I actually have a question for you - are you glad you did it? Because everything that I've been hearing about the legal profession of late has been MISERABLE. I'm beginning to think that if I go to law school next year I'm going to channel my efforts towards government instead...

-bb.

[Freerollin`]

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are you glad you did it? Because everything that I've been hearing about the legal profession of late has been MISERABLE.

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I'm actually leaving the practice of law. I enjoyed law school but hate the practice. Prosecuting was good work, but it pays crap, and I don't want to practice private law.

If I had the opportunity to do it all over, I wouldn't go to law school. Some people love it.

[schwza]

it seems like cop shows and movies have a lot of [censored] waving and pissing contests between people in different branches of law enforcement. how accurate is that?

[RayPowers]

If I murder a random person I have never met before and bury them in the vast ocean of sand between Phoenix and Tucson, really, what's the odds I'll get caught?

Ray

[Freerollin`]

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it seems like cop shows and movies have a lot of [censored] waving and pissing contests between people in different branches of law enforcement. how accurate is that?

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At the federal level it happens much more often than at the state level, at least in the northern US. In the south, and out west, there are states that have both police departments and sheriff's offices, something I don't understand. I've heard, but have no firsthand knowledge, that in these areas it occurs.

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If I murder a random person I have never met before and bury them in the vast ocean of sand between Phoenix and Tucson, really, what's the odds I'll get caught?

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What's your IQ, and where are you going to kill them?

[RayPowers]

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If I murder a random person I have never met before and bury them in the vast ocean of sand between Phoenix and Tucson, really, what's the odds I'll get caught?

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What's your IQ, and where are you going to kill them?

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I'm a smart guy. Honors courses in High school. Good SAT scores. So so scores in college due to boredom and lack of trying. Pretty successful businessman. I'm no super genius, but I have clue.

It would have to be a random kill of opportunity. No bystanders and such, but the location can easily be variable based on chance of success, chance of being seen, etc.


Ray

[homeslice]

When you were a cop on the beat, how many donuts would you eat per shift?