Nick Ford

If you're getting into it for the wrong reasons, right?

The half-life on that has got to be pretty short.

So make sure you're getting it for the right reasons, number one.

Number two, I would say, regardless of what anybody tells you, whether it's the media or somebody like myself who tries to coach people to leave law enforcement when they're ready to, I tell people, go for it, you know?

don't get involved in the drama like once you get to the to the um department you go through the academy and everything else like obviously prepare for the academy take it seriously when you go for an interview show up in a suit like there are people still that don't show up in suits and it just like blows my mind um but anyway so you go through the academy get to the apartment

Number three, the third tip, right, and I think is one of the biggest, is when you get to the department, try not to get involved in the drama.

Try not to get involved in the talking behind people's backs.

Everybody's going to have an opinion about different officers.

Take it with a grain of salt.

Form your own opinions.

And, dude, enjoy it.

Enjoy the ride.

Get out there and enjoy the ride and do the job and take every day, you know,

One day at a time.

And there are plenty of people out there that serve 20, 30, 40, 50 years in law enforcement and love every single day of it.

And if you're going down that path, I hope that that's you.

To everybody.

And, you know, if you're doing it for the right reasons, usually you won't have a problem.

But like...

yeah there's plenty of components of law enforcement that can be very ugly right like nobody ever calls the police because something good's going on it's always a crisis it's always a problem it's always a fight it's always a disagreement whatever the case may be um and you're brought in as like you know this this impartial you know person to try to mediate and from one call that was the the part that i love about the job but the job the most is the dynamics you never know