Don’t get me wrong, I love being a cop.
November 18, 2007
There’s actually a lot more police blogs out there than you care to know and most of them are pretty badly written. Take my word on this, I’ve done the research. Hope was lost until Bobby’s blog surfaced. Set somewhere in the United States it reads like a great episode of Law and Order. Entries bounce back and fourth between quiet moments of introspection, and explicative laced rants. It tends to be more rant heavy, but after all, he is a cop.
“Except for a brief stint where I wanted to be a pyrotechnician it’s all I ever wanted to be.”
I guess that’s his motivating factor for not quitting. It’s fairly clear from reading his writing that this journal serves some sort of cathartic function for him.
“If I get it all out on ‘paper’ I don’t have those frustrations lingering with me all night long. Add in the fact that the department that I work for really falls short in many categories, especially leadership, and you have my blog.”
One of the most interesting things about the blog is that it both confirms and denies so much of what you assume about police officers. In many ways he seems like every other mustached asshole that’s ever pulled you over and ticked you for a broken taillight. Yet there’s something much more pensive and human about his work. Two posts specifically come to mind, “He’s a human being for God’s sake,” and “A messenger?”. In the latter he relates an encounter he has with someone while trying to take a piss, and then they just disappear.
“I don’t know that the guy was an angel…I can’t explain my comfort speaking with him. I’m a cop. I don’t trust anyone that isn’t a cop or a friend/family member…I’d never experienced anything similar prior to that or since.”
What’s the meaning behind the title? He’s a big fan of Ghost Rider the comic book here.
“He’s far from perfect and in some cases, a real screw-up. I guess I feel like I’m not so different.”
Online journals; cheaper than therapists, possibly more useful. Telling us not only about ourselves, but giving humanity back to the fuzz.
