There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a policeman for 18 years.
My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!
It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.
I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.
I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical specialty as an Army trained emergency room doctor, I could stay until age 67.