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sop

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32. Years ago, right after college, I was looking for a summer job before graduate school.

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Reply #16)

Thu Apr 15, 2021, 05:33 PM

Apr 2021

I responded to a classified ad in the Miami Herald for a temporary position at the MPD, doing some kind of legal research. I was interviewed by a police lieutenant who spent the entire time trying to convince me I should become a cop. I suppose the guy thought I'd make a decent cop.

At the time, Miami was awash in drugs, teeming with corruption, with city officials taking payoffs and most cops embroiled in just about every form of criminality imaginable. At some point during the interview, probably imagining myself as the next Sonny Crockett or Rico Tubbs tearing around the city in a Ferrari, the prospect of becoming a cop seemed so absurd I started laughing and couldn't stop. I never took either job.

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Stop trivializing the capricious killing of black people? Duncan Grant Apr 2021 #19

No. Iggo Apr 2021 #23

People are expressing their frustration. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #26

I flirted with the idea of joining the LAPD in 1970 SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2021 #16

Years ago, right after college, I was looking for a summer job before graduate school. sop Apr 2021 #32

Easy question,,, Pas-de-Calais Apr 2021 #17

I am not surprised in the least. roamer65 Apr 2021 #22

Looks like a model citizen. I'll bet he smells as good as he looks. But hey, He's White !!! nt Progressive Jones Apr 2021 #24

They bought him dinner? malaise Apr 2021 #29

As a white, I'm wondering if I am more racist to stupid white people? LiberalFighter Apr 2021 #30

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