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I accessed and used local, regional, state, and federal databases. I worked with law enforcement officers and deputies from
dozens of different state, city, county, and tribal agencies in this state and many others states. And I had professional working
relationships with detectives, investigators, and federal agents from the FBI, DEA, DNR, ICE, DOC, DOL, and NIS.

Okay that’s enough of all of that. That’s my description of what I did for a living as a patrol officer, and I think I did a good job
of showing how my career as a public servant in law enforcement included the range of emotions and experiences that go from
“fun” and “exciting” to “rewarding” and “challenging” to “frustrating” and “sickening” and “soul-sucking.”

Now I have to add though that I certainly can’t claim that I saw it all, because thank God I didn’t. There were plenty of things I
missed out on, for better or worse. For example, to answer a common question, no, I never shot anybody. And I never got shot
at. That I know of, anyway. But I knew plenty of police officers who had found themselves in sudden lethal-force firefight
situations; some were shot at from a distance, some were shot at up close. Some were saved from injury by their vest; some were
injured seriously. In most of those cases the bad guy had fire returned; some of them were wounded, some were killed, and some
killed themselves after being wounded.