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Crime Division: Jack of All Trades—The Life of a Patrol Officer by Laurel Heidtman
Originally posted on Mystery Thriller Week:
From 1977 to 1988, I was a police officer in an Ohio city with a population of approximately 60,000. Our department had a hundred or so sworn officers when I started, but by the time I left, that number had been reduced due to budget constraints. We operated our own…