Is there currently any information about police stations carrying AI integrated drones for hot pursuits on people and vehicles? Maybe they can fly over an area where suspects may be can with cameras live streamed to the station, zoom, heat signatures, 4k, and AI integrated with a satellite mapping system to control the drone above or through buildings and trees and to be able to identify suspects and etc? If every police station in the USA chipped in the could probably have this in less than 5 years mass produced throughout the US. Would make chasing after cars a lot safer. They’d be able to surround suspects in big cases and getting away might be futile.

Any suggestions??? Im 22 yrs old and im thinking to join CMPD, is a good job?? Good salary how shows in their page?? Thank you

Which one do you find harder to deal with? When a suspect is resisting, do you use different strategies based on their gender? I always thought females might fight harder.

In 2020, I suffered high-grade tears to my ACL, PCL, MCL, and meniscus but never had surgery. Two years ago, I went through the fire academy, and while my knee got sore and ached after a while, I was able to complete it without major issues. I worked as a firefighter until I fell on it during a call (no additional damage), and now I work in an admin role in the fire service.

Recently, around Christmas, I tweaked it again after slipping while digging myself out of the snow. I think it’s just a minor strain or low-grade tear, but I want to let it fully heal before considering applying to a police academy.

For those who have gone through the academy with previous knee injuries, how did it hold up? Did you have any issues with the physical requirements, running, or defensive tactics? Would you recommend getting a medical evaluation before applying? Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Longs story short, I’ve just been sick of my job as a corrections officer. It was just the first job with decent pay that I could get. I’ve had the job for about a year and a half, just been ready to get out of it.

I would like to get into more real police work and not just being a CO.

Any tips of how I should go about this? I’m going to email the HR dept for a sheriffs department a few county’s over that my friend works in to see if I can talk to them.

My end goal is to one day be a park ranger one day but my state isn’t even accepting applicants for almost another year so I’m just trying to build up experience so I can hopefully get my dream job when they open up.

so the cop told me to give him an email....and I accidentally showed him all my emails which I do business on and want them to stay private....is there anyways I can request axon to delete it after my court? its a misdemeanor btw

I am a college student in Boston and one of my friends went to a bar using a fake id. The bouncer confiscated it, but he grabbed it out of the bouncers hand and ran. My other friend also got his id taken and didn’t get it back. They are both now freaking out about it and think they’re going to get in trouble. Should they be worried?

How does your department handle vacation time? At my department, we have the opportunity to place two vacations in for the rest of the year by Jan. 31. If we are at minimum counts those days then we are SOL and have to either pay people to cover our shifts or move our vacations around. What are other peoples departments doing for vacations?

Outside of vacations, if we just want a random day off, we have to wait until 15 days out from that date to find out if we can take that day off. Seems unreasonable to me but would also be curious on how other departments operate.

Well, just submitted my background investigation documents for Toronto.

Disclosed a conditional discharge and a foreclosure.

Already passed 2 stages and the interview and according to their website, I may still be entitled to my minute level of hope.

Hiring processes are stressful and I think this community would understand.

I was watching Rookie Blue and was thinking; If you have seen that show, how much do you relate to it as cop or any other movie or show about Cops. Is there anything in there that you’re like we’d never do that?!

First time getting pulled over for 60 in a 45. Can I just throw away the warning or do I have to do anything? No court dates or fines listed on it, but there is a signature line

I’ve asked a bunch of subreddits and I thought it’d be good to get some input from this one as well, I live in PA state and want to go hunting with a 300.blk that I’ve had for a while now but I’m 17 years old I have my license and my education card but the only thing standing in my way is how confusion state legislature is. I have tried to research if I can bring that firearm with me and hunt alone and I’ve been surrounded by yes-no’s the hunting legislation and sites continuously say that yeah you can use a firearm as long as your only going to hunt and go back home but then laws surrounding firearms and ccw’s and the existence of the sportsman license just confuse the hell outta me so if you guys could help at all to help me figure the confusion that is PA law I would really appreciate it. Thank you guys

Any Florida troopers on here? I am thinking about applying as a transfer (11 years as CO LEO). I would like to hear about your experience with FHP

This is literally just curiosity out of frustration.

I love watching Bodycams and have been watching quite a few DUIs. Like how on EARTH do you have the patience to stand there for 45 minutes trying to convince some dumbass to step out of their car. Ugh I just find myself screaming at my phone, “drag her ass out of the car”.

Like the patienceeee. The way I would scream at them to shut up. Do you not ever wanna smack them for being so irritating?!

Like really big trouble.

Just a quick question - there are multiple YouTube channels with copious amounts of bodycam videos (most of which appears to be American) and some of them will even state things like ‘This footage has never been released anywhere before.’

If so, how do these people get hold of the footage? Or is it just publicly accessible?

Yesterday i saw one number plate, and its have mh 00, how this can be happen, with hand written number plate, how people are using fake number plate id for there vehicle. May be this guy have bad intention, who knows. I thought people must know about this so thats why i m posting it.

As a martial arts enthusiast, I'm wildly curious about the combatives that were taught for the old school tonfa inspired nightstick.

Could anyone point me to where I could find resources the old nightstick. Videos, DVD's, magazines, books, anything will do.

I just wanna say thank you for helping out in the public even thought ita hard for yall and you don't get much thanks I just wanna say I appreciate the work yall have done and how yall help out to the people Thank you

Located in Western Canada, but would appreciate answers from anyone in the field as I would guess that the mindset isn't so different between the US and Canada.

We've found a lovely young lady from our church who is happy to help out with our little ones while I work from home during the day, which is honestly a dream. Her first shift was today, and she did great!

She also mentioned that her dad (who she lives at home with) is a police officer in town. For some reason, this is making me very nervous. I realize this is irrational; we're law abiding citizens without criminal records. We have good jobs, are reasonable if we're having disagreements with each other, drink in moderation if at all, hang out with good people, we are very loving and careful with our babies and dogs, and we try to be good neighbors to others.

I really have no idea why it makes me feel so worried. I have had a couple of situations occur in my life where an authority figure (medical professionals) badly misunderstood what was going on and assumed the worst of me. They thought I was abusing drugs/drug seeking at the emergency room when I was not, and I was pretty traumatized by that at the time because I was actually in severe pain from kidney stones. It was later proved via a surgery that retrieved the stones that I was definitely not lying or drug seeking, but the experience stuck with me, I guess.

Anyways, my rational mind tells me that police officers are probably more likely than the average person to be emotionally stable, highly decent and dutiful people, and that I don't need to be as anxious as I am. That no one is going to show up at my house and take away my children if I, say, re-use the same milk bottle for two feeds (kept in the fridge) without sanitizing it in between. (You technically should use a clean bottle for every single feed but also....my child has never gotten sick from it and we are extremely careful about food safety in general.)

Is there anything in particular I should be worried about? I feel like a bit of an idiot even just reading through this post.

Now im no cop but i do watch a lot of body cam videos on YouTube and ive come to notice that i dont hear the term DUI any more. Ive heard OVI and DWI but not DUI. Is it just an older term or is it something certain regions or PDs say?

I took the POST for Iowa and i did not pass. The subtest i failed was Reading Comprehension. I passed on everything else but that. I felt really confident and it was easy. Not sure what went down since i re-read the questions and the paragraphs within 20 mins. Also, double checked my answers. Any suggestions to how to score better in this section?

My uncle is a retired correctional officer ( and in his agency one of the few few Asians, and a rare Vietnamese American ). He had a a lot of thoughts about police/law enforcement reform, since the George Floyd Protests in 2020. Here are his thoughts.

Cultural Sensitivity practices : He agrees with this in principle. However, he says, the best way to encourage cultural sensitivity, is to actually hire people who look like the communities they serve. The percentage for example of Asian American Law Enforcement Officers is very low despite, Asian Americans being a very fast growing population. Even as a correctional officer he said, he was a rarity. He says we need more peace officers who speak Spanish, Russian, and all of these languages.

Academy Training/Length and College Education. : He points out that the common training regimen length that is portrayed by the media doesn't show the full picture.

There's often continuing education courses, and for many agencies 3-4 month long post academy field training program. Of course, one might wonder about the lack of Pre Academy requirements. In many agencies, the minimum is a high school diploma. But he says doesn't show the true story. He says that at least in Northern California, a college graduate is far more competitive in hiring than a high school graduate in addition to any languages one can speak.

He says, but there's another catch. Where the Police agency is located. He points out that people who do get college degrees, often don't work in the inner city police departments, they go out into the suburbs, where it has become basically white collar work. He says, for state level agencies, like the California Highway Patrol or even correctional agencies like CDCR, they can afford to be more selective or picky compared to small town USA. Mandating a college degree would ironically, make diversity worse in his view, the model of having incentives he believes is better.

He does not approve of deputy sheriff gangs, he sees it as stupid and immature.

He defends the Paramilitary structure of many academies because he points out that, at least in the correctional officer world, there is a hightened level of alertness that any peace officer has to be prepared for, and he does not see that happening in a less paramilitaristic environment. Of course, he admits that community policing has to be emphasized, but once again, he says, both in the police and correctional world, not enough people of color are being hired.

As a Vietnamese Immigrant who came to the US when he was 18, my uncle does not approve of so called military police culture, that he saw in both the policing and correctional worlds. He says, just respect the person in front of you, and they will show it back. He does not believe Military culture is appropriate for civilian law enforcement.

Can someone tell me what this means? I looked on Google and found a similar one for a senior police officer but they all had a star in the middle of the patch. This is on an Athens GA police officers uniform. Thanks!

I'm graduating high school next year with a pretty good gpa/sat score. I want to get into a law enforcement career (be a detective one day) but I honestly don't really know where to start. Some people have told me to get a degree in criminal justice while others told me to build my resume until I'm 21. Overall any advice would be great, thanks.

I'm a huge car guys and have seen some really cool cop cars so what's the coolest your department has?

I mean...shit....if I were in that position, just about the last thing in the world I would ever say is the first thing that comes to me. And it's to lie and say 2 beers. I think a much better answer...well...lie, would be to say "I had 2 beers, and 2 shots over a period of like..🤔 3 or 4 hours." Butitwrally everyone says "about 2 beers" or some variety of it. I'm basing this by the way on live PD and the people on it. Maybe not the best sample population who knows but what are some of the answers youve heard to this in the line of duty?

MSP allowing for tattoos? Seeing mixed answers some outdated and some recent. I have basically a full arm sleeve with exception to the piece I’m removing on my bicep. Nothing offensive or inappropriate. Nothing on the hands, neck, and face. Thanks.

So I am testing in another state that has more difficult fitness requirements. Where I worked before the requirements are 18 push-ups, 28 sit ups, and run a 1.5 mile in under 14:36. I passed it with little preparation. However, the next state over requires 26 pushups, 35 situps, run a 300 meter sprint in 62 seconds, and run a 1.5 mile in under 13:16. The pushups and sit ups are easy but I am slightly worried about the run. I've never sprinted before and don't consider myself fast at all. Last time I tested I ran a 1.5 mile in about 13:40 maybe? Any advice on how to shave off time on my 1.5 mile run or how to sprint? I have a few months before I test to prepare. Thanks!