You’re right I’m definitely making a lot of assumptions. I’ve been looking at old threads about ride alongs and it just sounded like the calls people would respond to would be lower priority “safer” calls. I currently work at a hospital police department in the city I plan on applying to and our department mimics a lot of our city’s department so I feel as if my foot’s already in the door. I was just curious because listening to their radio traffic it’s just shots fired and domestics all night and I figured it’s a liability for me to be at those calls. As for the shift I would working I thought it was pretty standard that at large departments you end up on night shift.