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The weight associated with adding bulletproof material makes vehicles extremely heavy. It limits the maneuverability and ease with which they can be driven.

The President's limo is bulletproof and is referred to as "The Beast" by the Secret Service because it's weight from bulletproofing...

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I'm going to differ with the others somewhat.

Any person convicted of a felony (or of a crime in another jurisdiction that would be a felony in California) is prohibited from employment as a California peace officer [Cal. Govt Code §1029(a)].

With few exceptions, this prohibition...

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What state are you in?

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Chippie applicants take note - this is what you will be dealing with.

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I guess there's comfortable and then there's comfortable. I'm in California where the cost of living is a bit higher. After five years, most cops here are making six figure incomes. Our pensions are around 90% of what we earn. Is that comfortable enough for you (or your parents) ?

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Its something like this.

In life we can be assured of a lot of things. We know that each morning, the sun will rise. The oceans will lap upon the shore. The wind will blow and the birds will sing. However, we cannot be assured that because a government agency has a job vacancy, it will...

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What the others have said. Continue with both until one gives you a solid hire date.

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Police personnel lack the medical expertise and training necessary to evaluate an officer's fitness for duty, so no one is going to be suspended or put on modified duty without first having them under go a fitness for duty exam by a medical professional....

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Where I'm at (and assuming the letter came from a civil service department), a lot will depend on when you got the letter.

If you got it after taking the written or the oral, it is usually because you failed to score high enough in those portions of the tyest to proceed further in the testing...

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A lot depends on the jurisdiction in question (your mileage may vary).

At the first agency I went to work for 50 years ago this year (yep, I’m that ancient) when we wanted an arrest warrant, we simply went next door and had a chat with Virgil.

Virgil was the local school...

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One of the hardest things applicants have difficulty with is this - It doesn't matter if charges were dropped or you were never convicted. What counts is what you actually did, convicted or not. So all those things cumulatively, 3 tickets in 3 years, dismissed reckless, 2 battery citations, drug possession...

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Most likely, no one will touch him. The big concern is, a few years down the line they may have an armed officer on the street who starts having flashbacks and sees dragons. Then what?

However, there are a very few agencies that say they will hire (I can think of at least two in California)...

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One of the biggest concerns is that (depending on its severity) persons in law enforcement with your condition can be more prone to suffer debilitating orthopedic injuries that can lead to workers compensation bills and disability retirements that are extremely costly for employers.

Go...

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Not LASD, but for many years I was involved in hiring with another agency and I can offer some general insight.

There are two issues here:

1. Every agency has a list of critical physical tasks their peace officers must be capable of performing. If the injury that caused your...

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People do unpredictable stuff in retirement.

One of my doctors was a Professor of mathematics for many years at a state university. He retired, went to medical school and became a dermatologist. He just retired for a second time....

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For many years I had a part time business buying, restoring and selling antique slot machines. (They are legal here in California) I had a three car garage as a workshop and showroom. At one point it was lined with 30 machines and looked like an old time casino.

For someone who is mechanically...