Posted: 5/6/2006 5:52:59 AM EDT
| How far from work do you live. I'm a C/O and work in a county jail about 25 miles away. Alot of people I work with live in town and see the assbags we deal with everyday. Since moving a year ago, I have seen one inmate. Anybody else see the advantage in this? |
| I moved from 4 Min door-to-door to 40 Min Door-to-door..while it was conveneint to live that close, it's kind of nice to watch the place get smaller in the rear-view on my wayb home. There are times i regret the move, but then i go out with my family and DONT see someone i've hooked up in the last 6 weeks, and i dont mind anymore. |
Same here. I live approx 40 miles from the prison I work at. It's not so much not running into the scumbags that is the advantage..it's the drive home that gives me the chance to "decompress". I can count one one hand the times I've made it home and still been in a shitty mood after a "bad day at the office". |
Tee hee! "local talent", im going to make that my quote of the day! I call them turdbags, cause thats what all the local officers scream at them while they run away. On a side note, i cant wait till i move out of my crappy apt. |
I arrest a ton of service industry folks (Bartenders, waitresses, buysboys, waiters) for DUI & dope. |
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Less than 20 minutes. My house is in the center of my coverage area although the muncipality I live in has local PD. I cover the muncipalities that have no PD or part time PD. I will occasionally run into the "local Talent" we refer as the coming from the shallow end of the gene pool. But It is rare and most of them dont recognize me, or at least they seem not to. |
Walking down the street, buying groceries, getting gas...My jurisdiction wasnt large enough to have that much distance between there the shitbirds perch, and the niormal people do their everyday business. |
Around here if you go to lunch with local cops they always peer nervously into the kitchen before ordering.... |
Happens everywhere. DUI...who gives a shit. Dope...they're not workin the night shift at the "Stop n Slop" cause they have a lot on the ball. Like I said, there are places I just won't go to, based on my personal experience with the staff. Walking down the street, buying groceries, getting gas...My jurisdiction wasnt large enough to have that much distance between there the shitbirds perch, and the niormal people do their everyday business. I live in a neighboring city that's smaller with much less crime. I guess I'm lucky in that regard. Still armed 24/7 though, you never know who'll remember you. I bet you can't get away from much of anything in NJ it's so small compared to out here!! 
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| I live about 2 miles from my briefing station. I've been doing this for almost 12 years and have only encountered people I have dealt with at work a couple of times. I refuse to go to any mall, Shoe Carnival, or Wal Mart, with my wife or kids, unless I drive 30 miles and go to one of these locations out of my jurisdiction. |
I go armed almost all the time (i know, i know..hy.gif ) BUT My wife didnt have that option, and there were a few skells that i just didnt trust to not do something stupid if they were liquored/doped up enough, even though i lived in the next town over, i had been seen coming and going enough by various shitheads that my residence was known..we had had a few guys homes broken into specifically we thought looking for guns. Discretion seemed the better part of valor, besides I always wanted to move down into the area im in now anyway... While there's a healthy population of shitheads where i am now, i'm 3 blocks from the beach and amusement park, and i take my daughter there a few times a week..it all works out for the best. |
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5 miles door to door. On occasion I see people that I've arrested. The older I get the less I like to go out to eat and rarely go to bars anymore so that cuts down on my chances of contact. When my son was young we took a vacation down to Virginia Beach, Va because he loved watching the F14's from Oceania NAS. During the 4 days that we were there I saw to people I arrested. One was a woman that I arrested for DUI - she actually came up to me and thanked me for arresting her because that was the catalyst that made her turn her life around. The other individual I saw was a guy I arrested for drugs. We looked at each other and did the non verbal communication thing. I'll never go back to that hole again. ETA: Out of my station we cover nearly 800 sq mi. So it's kind of hard to get away from all the wonderful people we serve. 
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I live about 10 minutes from the jail and lets just say I don't go anywhere without my handgun. Running into a skid is very common. |
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When I began my LE career I worked 25 miles from my jurisdiction - and 2 weeks out of field training I ran into a scrotebag I had arrested a few weeks before - and I had my 4yr old neice w/me (and my Sig 228). He recognized me and kept staring at me, so my neice and I left. I now live in the jurisdiction I work, a 'burb of 125K. I work in the S. part of the city so I don't often answer calls near my residence. There are pros and cons to living in the city, but I do know what is going on in my neighborhood. There are five other Officers I work w/ that live in my neighborhood, so we keep tabs on it. |
I'm a CO in a County Jail also I live approx 12.5 miles from work I've run into Ex-Inmates more than a few times, although never in my neighborhood It probably good that you live away from the Jail though Where in UT ? Does your Job Permit you to carry a Handgun Off-Duty ? I knew some "Jailers" in S.Dak that weren't allowed to As a sidenote, about five years ago we started housing Federal Inmates so it's no longer just "Local Skids" |