I started working with lapd

      (Written 2015)

  In December of 2012 I completed a course to become a volunteer for the Mayor's Crisis Response Team, and in the 7 weeks for the class and training I got to know much more about police officers and what they deal with etc.. I volunteered for over a year and a half but decided to part with the group because I wasn't getting any calls when I was available to be on call. I did meet some really great people in the process though.

      I saw a class being offered called "community police academy" so I took that and wow I learned so much about the inner workings of lapd and we had the opportunity to try the force option simulator at the very end,  it was so cool. The thing that stuck with me the most was a video they showed where an officer (Dinkheller) was killed on dash cam , evidently they show this to all new officers in the academy too. Ironically,  this year the man who killed him was finally executed after 17 years, even though they had it all on camera, it took that long. That is a damn shame, that his family had to live with knowing that bastard was alive all those years.  It changed how I thought and played a huge part in my becoming a supporter of law enforcement.

      I even looked into becoming a reserve officer but my knee keeps me from being able to physically qualify. So the next best thing is to try to support them and let all officers know that they have someone who cares and is behind them.