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I found myself in some really awkward situations; having to interview, accuse, and arrest occasional former classmates, school
teachers, community leaders, and business owners. More than once I arrested a former police officer and more than a few times
I busted kids whose parents were police officers.

I had to deal with a few (too many, actually) police officers misbehaving badly; sometimes with the public, and sometimes with
each other. I saw a variety of different kinds of police misconduct; some were ethical or moral failings, some were criminal in
nature. And I had probably more than my fair share of insufferable incompetent police supervisors.

I ran across a few bad guys so often in my career that I wound up memorizing their full names and birthdates so I could check
them for warrants every time I saw them loose out in public again. I was not happy that their personal information was taking
up memory space in my brain. Fortunately, 99 percent of the all the bad guys I met I was able to easily dump their names from
my mental database eventually. I met a lot of citizens who were certain that I still remembered their past criminal history from
10, 15, or 20 years prior; most were disappointed that I had forgotten them but a few were elated when I explained to them that
whatever they did that I had arrested them for years ago, it hadn’t been vivid or unique enough for me to still remember them.