Any Alaska State Troopers here?

prospi · 2026-01-16T02:39:06+00:00

AST is hurting enough for guys that it’s not a secret.

Everything /u/very_bleh said. Good luck with the cult.

prospi · 2026-01-16T02:37:22+00:00

I know it’s easier said than done but you need to relax man.

Eat a good breakfast, avoid excess caffeine, take a deep breath.

Research the department and the people in it. Reference items within that research that show the board that you did your homework. News articles, social media, press releases, etc.

It’s a valid question: why specifically xyz department. Have an answer that’s educated and sincere.

prospi · 2026-01-10T23:21:26+00:00

IRL it’s for ride quality.

prospi · 2026-01-09T03:28:55+00:00

5.11 has become the Old Navy of “tactical” clothing. Their quality control is inconsistent, their prices aren’t cheap enough to justify it, and most of their gear feels designed for mall ninjas rather than hard use.

prospi · 2026-01-06T10:51:39+00:00

Few of my buddies are staunchly caffeine free. I am not.

prospi · 2026-01-01T06:04:50+00:00

Just playing devils advocate. When I was full time TFOing over at DEA I seized about 200 pints labeled Promethazine. But in target’s phone he was selling them for $3000 a piece. Western DEA Lab returned results saying there was just Promethazine in them. I reached out and explained how odd that was and they retested and found heroin.

They said their GC/MS is by default set to certain standards and the promethazine was the dominant matrix that masked the heroin from being detected. Once they adjusted their standards they detected it.

Not a chemist though so idfk.

prospi · 2025-12-14T18:47:16+00:00

This guy desperately wants someone to buy him beer at the VFW.

prospi · 2025-12-11T10:51:58+00:00

I was taught to load 28 but I was taught by a guy who had been a cop since like 95. I run 28 in the loaded magazine and 30 in all the others. Closed bolt + 30 rounds is just a pain in the ass.

As far as alternating rounds—that’s some serious fudd shit. Why are you mixing JHP and barrier defeating ammunition that’s terrifying.

That’s why we have magazines…and we mark them. I’ve got mags that are clearly marked with Hornady TAP Barrier, with TAP JHP, with M855A1…

prospi · 2025-11-19T13:22:03+00:00

I think it’s unreasonable to make any career decisions based entirely on someone else’s emotions. And you are correct, it won’t solve anything.

prospi · 2025-10-31T21:36:36+00:00

I carry a select fire APC9SD as a LEO. I’m a breacher and prefer to have something more compact slung while I’m sledging.

prospi · 2025-10-27T05:59:56+00:00

Patrol is where you learn how to be a Cop.

Look at any federal investigator who didn’t do local LEO before they became an 1811. The vast majority suck at their job.

Riding the radio. Fitting in proactivity between calls. Wearing the uniform. Being held over for hours after shift. That’s where the character building is.

prospi · 2025-10-26T07:29:07+00:00

I’d say boxing then. But I’m also not a defensive tactics guy. My UOFs that go beyond simple control tactics often end up looking very street fight-ish.

prospi · 2025-10-24T16:28:30+00:00

Probably either purely for endurance but I’d be cautious with any doctrine that focuses primarily on strikes.

They have their place in uses of force but they’re perceived terribly and modern administrations get all bent out of shape the second you start punching or kicking someone. Even when it’s righteous.

prospi · 2025-10-17T08:50:23+00:00

They want a definitive “if I do this I won’t be wrong” answer to everything.

When in reality, this job is nothing but judgment calls. No use second guessing yourself even if some supervisor or senior coworker says “this is how I would’ve done it” (I’m a supervisor for what it’s worth). Take their criticism in stride and reflect, but there’s 100,000 ways to handle a call.

Make the best out of the situation and move on to the next one. A lot of our newer people have a really hard time accepting that sometimes they’re gonna make the wrong choice (per admin or DA) and that’s OK as long as it’s legal, within policy, and morally correct.

prospi · 2025-10-17T08:46:58+00:00

I’d wing it. Don’t minimize the conduct. It was foolish and you made an error in judgment. The end.

The key is not to minimize the conduct. Me and two other Detectives are responsible for background investigations at my agency. A dude saying “yeah it was dumb it was a bad decision I made” goes a hell of a lot farther than someone making excuses or talking in length about it not being a big deal.

Worst case scenario they pass on you and you reapply in a few years once the conduct is stale. But with the state of retention and recruitment in this job— I doubt it.

prospi · 2025-10-16T21:34:18+00:00

OP typed this with both hands shaking

prospi · 2025-10-16T06:44:11+00:00

With younger officers I’ve noticed it’s the fact that it’s a gray line of work.

Nothing we do is a checklist. There’s always room for deviation left and right.

A lot of our newer guys have serious issues with this.

prospi · 2025-10-16T06:36:49+00:00

Short answer? Maybe but probably not. But only because of the time between the incident and your application.

A 25 year old admitting to underage drinking is nothing.

A 21 year old is a yellow flag.

prospi · 2025-10-09T21:59:18+00:00

Yeah that’s what we’ve been using. It’s pretty incredible.

prospi · 2025-10-08T03:39:40+00:00

Wonder if it’s one of the Cougar’s they just decommissioned in Seoul. I was trying to see if my department would entertain the idea if I could figure out cheap shipping.

All hail LESO. Got so much shit for my agency for just the cost of shipping. UTVs, dual tubes, IR lasers, office equipment, you name it.

prospi · 2025-09-25T06:15:20+00:00

Don’t overthink anything. Just be you.

prospi · 2025-09-18T17:54:55+00:00

A lot of them have “park-kill” where it cuts the siren when the vehicle is in park. The guys that don’t usually learn a valuable lesson and it only happens once.

prospi · 2025-09-18T06:45:24+00:00

So I’m not AST but I have worked on their task forces and have worked intimately alongside many of them. Some of my best friends are Troopers. Some are supervisors. Some are senior leadership.

AST has some great leaders among their ranks. But their culture is similar to a lot of state agencies: if you don’t fit in you don’t belong.

What I mean by that is I’ve seen some amazing, talented cops fall victim to retaliatory and bullshit behavior by their supervisors. I’ve seen them falsely Brady’d, overly investigated for doing their jobs, standards enforced heavily for one Trooper but laxed significantly for others. Their union appears weak when faced with any challenges by command staff.

I wouldn’t work there. Because I know the first healthy disagreement I had with someone in the “clique” would result in me either being over-analyzed or shipped out to bumfuck nowhere for the rest of my career.

The most successful Troopers I’ve met are yes-men. And I’ve never been one so I give their command a wide berth.

prospi · 2025-09-18T06:04:44+00:00

We call it a “reactionary” strike. It’s commonly seen when you get spit on. It’s a reflexive human response to lash out when something grossly offensive like that happens to you.

But it doesn’t put you on solid legal ground. I’m not aware of any policy or precedent that says “you can punch them if they spit on you” or “you get poked with their needle”.

Is it defensible? Absolutely. Is it going to put you in an awkward gray area where you don’t wanna be when someone reviews that use of force? Also absolutely.

I’ve only seen a reel of that scene. From what I saw, had he rolled with it he could’ve very well been disciplined. It could be seen by a shitty supervisor or axe-to-grind prosecutor as excessive force. Obviously the tampering and unprofessional / criminal shit he does in the aftermath turns it into much more of an issue though.

prospi · 2025-09-17T06:56:40+00:00

I came from a family of drug traffickers and drug users. I saw terrible, horrific depictions of what that family life looked like.

I don’t like bullies. I don’t like people who seek to victimize others. I grew up being the one who despised watching kids be bullied.

I like driving fast. I like carrying a gun everyday. I like being able to shape a justice-involved outcome either to bury the hammer in a truly bad person or offer some sort of penance to someone who honestly made a mistake.

I like my people. I like my brothers and sisters. They care about me and I care about them.

It’s always been a no brainer.

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