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I did see some people reform themselves and turn their lives completely around but I saw many more just never get it and throw
their lives away for a number of reasons and causes. I met a lot of repeat offenders, chronic repeat offenders, and slow learners.
I crossed paths with a few special career criminals repeatedly over my entire career and I arrested multiple generations from the
same families and for a couple of families virtually every single one of them over time. I saw way too many doomed kids grow
up to become losers and fulfill their expected destinies of having more jail booking photos than birthday cakes. I caught a few
bad guys who were later deported back to their home countries, and I caught a lot of bad guys who went to straight to prison
after the jail; their last free moments in society were ended when I handcuffed them.

I put out a few fires – literally - and I saw a lot of fires consume property. I saw houses on fire, buildings on fire, cars on fire,
barns and fields on fire, restaurants, businesses, portable toilets, trees, bark, brush, decks, porches, power lines and transformers
on fire. I saw a lot of trees go down into power lines and trees crashed onto roads, and cars, and houses. I saw houses that should
have been on fire but weren’t. I saw houses where people never took the garbage out or cleaned the cat litter boxes. I saw heart
wrenchingly cute little kids living in neglect, squalor and garbage. I saw “normal” people living in garbage and clutter filled
houses. I saw people who died in squalor and filth and poverty, with bank saving account balances in the six digits. I saw the
inside of crazy cat lady houses, I saw houses where hoarders lived, houses saturated with mold, rotten houses with holes clear
through the roofs and ceilings and walls, houses with no running water, and one unforgettable dead rat man’s house. I had to
visit hundreds and hundreds of different houses and apartments on 911 calls of every kind. Some were repeat visits to the same
places over the years but with different occupants, which was always a little weird in a familiar sort of way for some reason. I
saw a few evictions. I saw houses with interior decorating frozen in time from decades past. I saw immaculately clean houses
and unbelievably filthy houses. Interestingly enough both kinds always inspired me to go home and clean mine.