Lawdog Dago Dom Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Guilty as charged on a few. It did take me about a year to quit writing my badge number after my name on receipts. https://www.policeone.com/entertainment/articles/6198477-10-funny-habits-that-follow-you-off-duty/?utm_source=PoliceOne+Member+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8bc03a3293-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_29_09_57&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ca044a84ea-8bc03a3293-42112835 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Been retired 19 years and still do just about every one. No touch screen back then. Biggest is back to the wall and able to see entrance and back door if possible. Still look at every license coming towards me and in front of me. Gun hand will always be free. Love children, why I have been volunteering at the kids camp the last 17 years. Watch everyone's demeanor and listen in on other conversations. Pull over to help stranded motorists and try and hit the lights. Watch who is going into the bank and type of cars parked around the bank and if someone is setting in one. Especially if the vehicle is backed in a parking spot. Teens running I almost start after them. Crap, nope, never retire just the nature of being a cop. The sheepdog forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Hangtree Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Guilty on probably 9 out of 10 on that list. Another thing I still do is that I walk wide going around blind 90 degree corners like building walls. Also, I still close car doors quietly, as well as interior building doors. Sometimes without thinking, when my cell phone rings on my left hip, I'll start to turn it upside down before pulling it from its holder, same as we would do to unleash the walkie-talkie from its holder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Yep guilty as charged. My wife claims it’s embarrassing when we sit in a public place and my eyes never stop moving, we were on a cruise when my wife called out the guy at the end of the table as a cop for the same reason he was a Chicago Officer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Rich Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Wife still wonders why I do some of those things. kR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Disable the dome light. Don't let people touch me. Sit with back to the wall. Check for bulges in the clothing. Check peoples hands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Still will only sit where I can watch the door. Always have a escape route when out...... Try to read 'tats' to see who they belong to. List goes on........ OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I was never a police officer but I do some of the things listed and a couple that you gents mentioned. To me it’s common sense...or maybe I was a cop in a past life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I don't write many checks but when I do, I have to consciously remember to not put my badge number after my signature. I always try to sit with my back to the wall in a restaurant and the gun hand is always available while in public. I always take a moment and look through the glass of a convenience store before I walk in and I'm always sizing up everyone at the gas pumps while I'm filling up. I've been retired almost 4 years but old habits die hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Been retired since 2003 and I still check the store or bank before I go in. Hard to break habits that you had for almost 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet & Sassy Cindy Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Quilt y’all!! I’m even more hyper sensitive to my surroundings and thinking about how I would handle different scenarios now that Dave died Not that I’ve lost my confidence to take care of myself, but my partner was always right there, watching my back. I know he is still doing the same thing from above, just taking care of me in a different way!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I was never a cop but I do all of those things after being in the Army and the Corps. It took me five years to stop answering the phone "(my current rank) Taylor". Also after 'Nam there is no way you can get me on a bus. Ever. And the scariest thing I've had happen in fifty years was ride an ambulance down to Phoenix. YOU CAN'T SEE OUT OF THOSE DAMNED THINGS!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: And the scariest thing I've had happen in fifty years was ride an ambulance down to Phoenix. YOU CAN'T SEE OUT OF THOSE DAMNED THINGS!!!!! Ambulance on cobblestones! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Situational Awareness,,,, has saved My life more than once . Trust ,,, is earned... Some of the best Dressed people, are the worse Crooks out there .... We can't go armed here ,,,, So sitting with you back to a wall but not in a corner helps ... Jabez Cowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 7 minutes ago, Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 said: Situational Awareness,,,, has saved My life more than once . Trust ,,, is earned... Some of the best Dressed people, are the worse Crooks out there .... We can't go armed here ,,,, So sitting with you back to a wall but not in a corner helps ... Jabez Cowboy How much is your life worth? I’d move to a state where men still walk free Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Cowboy,SASS # 50129 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I'm in Canada were We are ALL Safe ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, According to our Government .... Jabez Cowboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I always sit in a restaurant with my back to the wall, but that's because of Wild Bill Hickok, as I was never a cop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LawMan Mark, SASS #57095L Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I notice expired tags, switched tags, seat belts, windshields and lights. I sit with my back to the wall in any public venue. The wife thinks I'm watching other women when we walk through the mall, when what I'm noting where exit doors are, and watching the hands and mannerisms of people around us. I never wrote my badge number after a signature, but I still use my initials with a circle around them (told the judge to not go light on that ticket). I got a flashlight, at least two guns and reloads, extra keys and my ID on my pretty much all the time. Retirement is pending in around five years unless health intervenes. I don't see any of the above changing because I'm not on the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 23 minutes ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said: I always sit in a restaurant with my back to the wall, but that's because of Wild Bill Hickok, as I was never a cop! I picked up that habit in the Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 If you want want to see something hilarious I meet a bunch of cops that I retired with for breakfast occasionally. Breakfast is at 08:30. Guys start getting there at 08:00 and would argue about who had to sit with their back to the door. The restaurant finally put us in a back room at long table so everyone had their back to the wall. Awkward and silly as hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rexster Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 The numerous little tactical things are still a matter of survival in this sometimes-mean world; good ideas that are completely independent of ever having been a peace officer. I still usually wear my ID, driver’s license, and health plan card in a carrier on a ball chain around my neck, under my shirt. Again, it is something that seems the tactically wise choice, as nothing in my wallet will let anyone know I was ever employed by a PD. I do have to be careful about unthinkingly walking armed into federal facilities, as I have no “official” status, which enabled me to enter most of those areas, with weapons, while I was still an active law enforcer. When I had a “duty to respond,” 24/7, I tended to naturally “stand up for what’s right,” when I saw folks being abusive to others. With retirement, I had to turn that off, especially as a significant reason I retired is that some acute and chronic injuries had compromised my physical abilities. At the same time my duty to respond ended, I also lost “qualified immunity,” so I need to pick my battles very carefully. I had to learn to stop authoritatively giving bad guys “the look.” I will continue to make just enough eye contact, to let them know that I am aware, and not an easy target, but I do not want to be seen as “disrespecting” them. I figure that I am doing something right, because people tend to mistake me for being prior military, rather than prior LEO. Now, to learn to turn it down, more, to achieve the “grey man.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashknife Cowboy Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 I still sit where I can watch the door in a restaurant I scan the room when I enter I stand beside the door when I knock or ring the doorbell In traffic I do not stop window to window with the car next to me I undo my seat belt about a 1/4 mile before I pull into wherever I am going I redo my seat belt about 1/4 mile after I pull out I believe that every 10th driver is impaired, whether medical or recreational I rarely talk to anyone I do not know with my hands in my pockets and there is more...... Oh, i'm guilty as charged.....27 years did me in...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 If my hand is in my pocket it’s on my gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Crimes Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 I still eat like I am in a hall with 200 other very hungry guys and I have 5 mins to be out and on Parade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 I get misty eyed when I see a doughnut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 It may be wrong, but I still love those convenience store french vanilla cappuccinos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 14 hours ago, Major Crimes said: I still eat like I am in a hall with 200 other very hungry guys and I have 5 mins to be out and on Parade My father always ate as if the Germans would be strafing/bombing in two minutes. Aircraft mechanic in North Africa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 ... reading these is like watching myself on video playback ... never signed with the badge number ... otherwise ... yep ... Suspicious of a vehicle following me, I've been known to go out of my way to make four consecutive right turns to see if I'm actually being followed. Leave enough room in front of me when stopped, to make an escape, whether left or right: that one alone saved my bacon one dark night! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry T Harrison Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Did anyone else get nervous when they saw a police car in their rear view mirror WHEN you were driving a darn police car Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 6 hours ago, Henry T Harrison said: Did anyone else get nervous when they saw a police car in their rear view mirror WHEN you were driving a darn police car Nope, was my back-up on time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 9 hours ago, Henry T Harrison said: Did anyone else get nervous when they saw a police car in their rear view mirror WHEN you were driving a darn police car I got pulled over by a Trooper when I was in an unmarked unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 Does receiving a parking ticket on your unmarked count? (I paid it, best $10 ever spent, anyone trying to use me to get out of a ticket heard my story to their face and the fact I paid my own parking ticket on a police car, ya think I am gonna get you out of one?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Hangtree Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 14 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I got pulled over by a Trooper when I was in an unmarked unit. When I was UC Narcotics, I once got pulled over by a Trooper, and I had a pound of weed in a backpack on the floorboard of my pickup (on duty, just made a buy). Fortunately, the Trooper never asked about the backpack. My supervisor was just down the street, watching the whole thing, just in case it went further than necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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