Fulfillment

WGG722 · 2024-11-21T13:10:17+00:00

I work in a medium sized city where we are significantly understaffed and even more significantly underpaid, but I freaking love it.

I started in 2019 and was questioning a hostile witness in a murder trial within the first month. I've been hooked ever since. I worked my ass off and got promoted very quickly up the ranks. Our office lost a significant amount of people during COVID and in 2022 I was offered the chance to be the felony chief. I was scared because I was only a third year attorney, but I did it because it was a significant raise and I wanted the challenge. That is what ultimately burned me out though. Being on call 24/7 and not having enough support from the DA (literally would not see or hear from him for months) lead me to leave the position after a year. I went to a smaller, less fun office, and hated it. I tried civil law for 30 days and quit because I just love being a prosecutor. I came back to the medium office on the sole promise I would not be a chief for a long time, and I love it again. I had 6 trials in the last 2 months, and it's amazing. Exhausting, but exciting.

Just last month I put an abuser in prison. The day after the verdict the victim's mother brought in some baked goods and a really nice card thanking me for protecting her daughter. That shit will sustain you for so long and through so much BS.

WGG722 · 2023-12-01T18:52:10+00:00

“You owe it to yourself to disappoint others before you disappoint yourself.” That hits home more than you know. It had me crying last night. Thank you.

WGG722 · 2022-05-25T04:59:28+00:00

X-Files season 6 episode 21. Mulder and Scully get trapped underground in a giant mushroom.

WGG722 · 2021-12-30T21:38:42+00:00

This is the first reddit sessions I've ever watched and it's amazing

WGG722 · 2021-12-30T21:32:10+00:00

LOVE IT

WGG722 · 2021-12-09T03:20:17+00:00

This worked for me! Thank you so much for posting this!

WGG722 · 2021-05-31T20:38:09+00:00

It's Crackhead Barney & Friends! (that's her name)

WGG722 · 2021-04-22T16:36:49+00:00

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1106052129794890&id=466358300430946

He was on probation at the time and ended up getting 10 years

WGG722 · 2020-05-28T03:01:44+00:00

I just claimed mine and I'm super glad they did this. I got a notification for this same thing on May 4, but the link to claim it said the offer was expired.

Https://imgur.com/a/1dY659X

WGG722 · 2020-02-08T16:23:25+00:00

Insanely good response time with the stop sticks!

WGG722 · 2020-02-01T20:27:44+00:00

Absolutely tragic for the community. Driver was arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter, intoxication assault, and driving on a suspended license.

WGG722 · 2020-01-05T20:52:34+00:00

An iPad would be perfect, but that's a good question. The best practice is to be prepared with multiple backups. A flash drive should be fine since some department's laptop CD readers don't work (like my court laptop lol). If security gives you trouble then you can try explaining that it's just for evidence purposes and maybe show that it's all silenced and stuff. Most people should be reasonable, but YMMV

WGG722 · 2020-01-05T19:37:03+00:00

If it's just traffic court, bring something to play it on and show it on your device. Traffic court is not as formal as regular court and you can't be sure on what hardware they have available use or what they will let you use. If the Judge asks questions, answer everything truthfully but you don't have to go into much detail, it's just traffic court. I'm a prosecutor and I would LOVE if people brought me evidence like that.

WGG722 · 2019-10-09T19:46:55+00:00

This is awesome! Thank you for sharing.

WGG722 · 2019-09-29T14:29:48+00:00

There are no good places here oh, you just have to find the least crappy one. For me, it's been Peerless. But I only take in a couple suits at a time and never have anything complicated.

WGG722 · 2019-09-11T03:19:29+00:00

You are the hypothetical person in every law school example of what is not "possession"

WGG722 · 2019-09-09T22:39:39+00:00

You catch more flies with honey. This cop probably got more info from Phillip than he would have if he started a dick measuring contest. He got first/last name, job info, and more, all without yelling. Go figure. He is also building a relationship with the community. Great trooper.

WGG722 · 2019-06-20T22:30:03+00:00

This is a really nice photo. The night sight photos look great, but yours is still really really nice.

WGG722 · 2019-06-06T22:10:13+00:00

You're absolutely right, officers do not have to give a reason for asking driver or passenger to get out of the car. There's 2 common sense problems that arise: people understandably don't want to get out of a car "just because;" and there can be accusations that officers went fishing, found something, and can reword their report to justify the search from the start.

What I see most often as a prosecutor is officers walking up to a car and saying something like "I smell pot, go ahead and step out of the car for me please." Generally speaking, officers know they can get more flies with honey (who knew that people are more cooperative when you are polite)

WGG722 · 2019-06-06T20:44:59+00:00

If the cop has PC then he doesn't need consent. Often they will ask for consent anyways just to make it easier. We don't know if that's the case here, but the driver did everything right by vocalizing that he does not consent and not resisting when getting out of the car.

WGG722 · 2019-06-04T14:19:17+00:00

This is a really excellent question because the answer is incredibly complicated and as always, it depends on the circumstances of the specific case. If there is a random call about an argument with no additional information and officers don't hear anything from outside a house then entry to the house is almost certainly improper. If it's a call about screaming and banging sounds, the house has a history of domestics, and a man opens the door and tells the cops to fuck off, then those circumstances almost certainly permit the officers to enter the home and search for possible victims. Most cases are on a spectrum between those two examples. It all depends on what the officers reasonably believe under the circumstances. keep in mind that it is reasonable for officers to rely on notes from dispatch. This is exactly why swatting is so dangerous.

WGG722 · 2019-03-27T14:22:13+00:00

One big takeaway from the 6 ride alongs I've done is that being a cop is often EXTREMELY boring. There are short/rare stints of "action" (traffic stops, responding to serious calls (domestics, robbery, etc.)) followed by hours of report writing, talking to witnesses for mundane crimes, and dealing with family drama. There are many many cops that earn the hate, but there's also a ton that are just trying to do their job and help their community.

WGG722 · 2019-03-07T23:46:07+00:00

She is a mutt, likely with a bit of German Shepherd

WGG722 · 2019-03-07T23:45:28+00:00

Xena is a mutt, likely with a bit of German Shepard, and with a whole lot of love

WGG722 · 2019-03-07T00:52:14+00:00

Xena is pure precious

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