“I was 19 year old when I started, and I didn’t start it with this altruistic attitude of ‘I’m going to get in here and help the community and help people.’ Boy, I got in there because it was fun. We got to ride up and down the road fast in cars with, at that time, red lights and sirens. We got to put handcuffs on people and go take people to jail,” he reminisced at his retirement speech in January.

“And we did a lot of other things that, uh, they don’t do nowadays,” he laughed.

This is what happens when your policing system attracts criminals.