Officer: Death isn’t the worst-case scenario for a cop. Here’s what is.

Officer: Death isn’t the worst-case scenario for a cop. Here’s what is.: Being a police officer has been described as so many things.

It’s a job, it’s a profession, it’s a lifestyle, it’s a commitment, it’s a calling.

For me it’s my identity. I can’t say it’s what I dreamt of as a child; I really can’t pinpoint a single day or time in my life where I can say, “that’s it, that is the day I knew.” All I know is that title of police officer is no less a part of my existence than my fingerprints.

All police officers dream of changing the world, and whether it’s to change how the system works or how our children thrive, change is the forefront of every recruit’s drive to put on a uniform and get to work. We all dream of a long career, policy-making stories to tell new recruits and after twenty or thirty years passing all our wisdom to a new force of shiny badges.

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