Lots of family and friends still in the service and doing as good a job as they can but for each good one there is no doubt an asshole.

But I can’t speak for cops in other countries, only experience in Scotland.

It was seeing how awful humans are to each other that really sold it for me, I’d rather live in my bubble, thanks.

Scottish Police Service. Turns out peeling back the curtain of the worse side of people isn’t conducive to good mental health for me so I got outta there.

I have found ChatGPT to be better than Google for random questions I have, asking for general advice in a whole bunch of things but sido what to go for other sources. I also use it to extrapolate data, come up with scheduling for work (I organise some volunteer shifts) and lots of excel formulae.