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Out on the streets I played the name game with a lot of criminals when they decided they suddenly wanted to have a different
identity and not reveal their own real names. When we weren’t sure of their names we’d take them to jail, where their
fingerprints (invariably already in the system) would correctly identify them.

In the narcotics category I seized and confiscated all kinds of illegal and recreational drugs including marijuana, heroin, opiates,
methamphetamine, cocaine, crack, LSD, MDMA, and prescription pills of every shape size color and flavor. I field tested a lot of
suspected substances to confirm what kind of drugs they were. I helped bust marijuana grow operations and meth labs. I
confiscated drug dealers’ money and cars used to commit felonious crimes. I found lost drugs and had citizens turn in found
drugs to me. I caught a lot of people who had altered and forged drug prescriptions; some of them I caught waiting at the
pharmacy counter while the pharmacists stalled them. I seized and confiscated contraband and drug paraphernalia of all
different kinds and learned the hard way the importance of emptying full sloshing large used water bongs before transporting
them in the trunk of my patrol car. I destroyed tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of drugs by fire, or pouring down storm
drains, or flushing in toilets. I learned it is actually very hard to flush marijuana because it tends to float really well.

I handed out thousands and thousands of shiny blue and silver “JUNIOR POLICE” stickers to kids of all ages in the schools, and
especially at parades and festivals. High school kids especially liked them. And buzzed adults on beer run/pub crawl events.