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So with Hurricane Sandy, SF earthquake, the recent Houston flood, and many other calamities, there was a quick and unified response from federal/state/local agencies, charitable organizations, corporations, utilities, and big hearted citizens. FEMA money poured in, LE agencies and the National Guard...

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Lol. Appreciate the honesty.

Other things known to be complicated:

Relationships
Surgeries
Time travel
Quantum mechanics
Global warming
The connection between Pi and gravity
The Finnish language
Defining the word "the"...

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No, but I can think of a few....

Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Detroit, 1967
LA, 1992
Watts, 1965
Iraq (endless)
Syria (endless)
Yemen (endless)
Afghanistan (endless)
Myanmar (endless)
Libya (endless)
Somalia (endless)
Sudan (endless)...

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I read an article over the weekend which covered the "72 hours to Animal" concept.

In an nutshell: if the S hits the fan and food and fuel and safety are no longer assured, within 72 hours you can expect the violent hordes to emerge....

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Usually small offices, which can be good or bad. Good if everyone gets along, bad if they don't.

Mostly work food stamp fraud, the billion dollar criminal fleecing of America.

Most of those cases involve food stores in the 'hood- those places which sell strawberry blunt wrap...

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There's been a transition in the last couple decades for conservation agencies- from policing consumptive uses (fishing, hunting, trapping) to policing recreational activity (boating, ATV riding, etc.) Why? Because society is changing.. less people are buying hunting licenses and more people are buying...

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One option not yet mentioned: State Attorney General offices. They typically have investigators working financial crimes.

RE: career jumping from prosecutor to cop. I have seen it happen, but only once. More common are guys who went to law school but never took the bar (or passed the bar)...

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Hmmm... I think you are somewhat conflicted about what you want to do with yourself and your career.....

You wish to get away from desk work and dealing with the courts (which is totally understandable) but specifically want to work financial...

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Top tier departments/state police: you have no chance, ever

Mid tier departments: 7 years from now, if you are lucky

Low tier departments: 1 year from now

Your best shot of getting on before 2026? A city in municipal bankruptcy with a PD with no pension fund, no...

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14:28 for 1.5 miles.... did you walk 1.25 miles of that?...

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Other than Alabama football players, I don't know of anyone who gets paid to go to college (joking).

Different ways people pay for college:

-Family support
-Student loans
-Working part-time
-Combination of all three

Problem solve: figure out a...

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The correct answer, fwiw, to such scenario is,

"I would quickly exhaust my magazines in order to protect my partner from getting his head caved in."...

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That's called a 'non-answer'.

You won't be progressing further with the department but I do see a bright future for you in politics.......

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Set up to fall like a bowling pin by a manager with a personal beef. I know EXACTLY what that's like. I had no union protection, no ombudsman, no nothing except HR, which is the same as having nothing. Upper management was totally indifferent about situation. Dysfunctional too... second level supervisor...

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1. Get out of there as soon as possible.

2. Your basic needs will be met. The financials will balance out as months and years pass.

3. Leaving will be the best thing you've ever done....

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My similar bitter sentiments evaporated pretty quickly. Two weeks before I retired, I wrote a long and angry F You email which I intended to send on my last day. I didn't send it though, partly because IT shut me out before I walked.

Within a month, all that internal vinegar was gone....

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lol. You don't have to read any of this garbage, you know...

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Perfect.

My retirement party consisted of a dozen work friends at local bar on my last day. They wanted a speech. I said, "Be smart, be safe, and be lucky." Then I told them no one appreciates what they do everyday, except for each other.

A couple of us ended the...

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The Malheur situation is an excellent template to consider. Nickel version of what happened: two ranchers in Oregon were re-sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty arson on federal land. The rub: they had already spent a year in prison but DOJ appealed the sentence

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I sure hope you're right. But look at what POTUS tweeted last night:



To millions of his loyal adherents, this translates to:

1. They are coming to remove me from the office which you elected me to.
2. Then they are coming to get your guns.

Trust...