Jonathon Wolfe: A Career As A Police Officer

Do you get upset when people criticize the job you love; the job that you have worked so hard to excel in? When people see the blue lights flashing and sirens blaring, rushing through a red light; they just think, “Oh they just did that to get through the light because they did not want to wait.” What people do not know is that every time those lights come on, it could be the last thing they do. Police officers put their life on the line everyday for people who cannot even say so much as a thank you. They do not do it for the praise or admiration; they do it to keep the people safe. I have been working at Mac’s Fresh Market for almost two years now and I have established a good relationship with one of the store’s security guards. I am constantly …show more content…
Wolfe decided to become a police officer, because he has always enjoyed helping people and protecting them. A year after graduating college, he was sent away to the police academy to begin training. The academy was military equivalent; they woke up at 4:30 every morning for role call. Then it was off to the training, it is not like the sort of training on movies where you see them bear crawling under barbed wire and it magically starts to rain and they start slipping through the mud. He started with running 5 miles, then onto driving tactics, firearms training, handcuffing tactics, and first aid. He also had to adapt himself to the constant change of the constitutional …show more content…
In his career, he has seen a total of twenty-three dead bodies, but he still goes into work everyday with a new attitude. One story that specifically stuck in his mind was when it was his first year at Ridgeland. He got all a call from a husband saying that he just shot his wife and was about to shoot himself. When Wolfe arrived on the scene, the couple was outside lying on the ground. The scene that was laid out in front of him was the most gruesome and gory scene he had ever seen. The wife’s chest was covered with blood and the husband’s brain was pilling out of his head due to the gunshot he inflicted. He also has to deal with kids, growing up in an unstable household, falling down a dangerous path of violence and crime. Wolfe does his best to watch out for the kids that are having trouble by giving them a male figure to look up to. He and his partner will go to the apartment complexes or “meet up” spot to monitor them. Having three guns pulled on him, he does not even flinch. His purpose is to get the guns out of their hands as quick as possible. When asked if he was afraid of death, he replied with such composure you would think that he had no emotions. He says that he is not afraid of dying; he just does what he has to do and if that means dying so someone else can live or a kid gets off the streets, he is all but willing