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I got in the habit of looking down certain side streets and certain driveways so much that I did automatically, even off duty.

I dealt with dead, dying, and senile people in nursing homes and assisted care facilities. I saw sick, dying, and dead people with
unbelievably large collections of medications. Every time I went in a nursing home I felt a strong urge to go home and eat some
vegetables and be healthy and not ever wind up in a nursing home as a resident or patient.

I confronted solicitors of all kinds: door to door salesmen, (some legitimate and some not) con artists, proselytizers, prostitutes
looking for clients, and just plain beggars - some truly destitute and some not so much.

I responded to a lot of cases where things had been completely blown out of proportion, over hyped, or misinterpreted badly,
sometimes by the witnesses, and more disheartening, sometimes by the 911 dispatchers themselves.