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My father was a detective for 30 years. The things I grew up knowing about... smh...

He had a pretty good sense of humor about it, though, and I have always imagined, he left the worst stuff out - so that those thirty years appeared to be more key stone cops and science (a human kidney weighs so and so pounds, this organ is on this side of the body and looks like blah) than blood soaked carpets and ruined lives.

If I could go back in time to tell my dad how to do this better, I wouldn't change a thing. He made me brave about my own body, its strengths and weanesses and how those strengths and weaknesses could be mitigated by my own choices. He hated cop shows that showed "bad" cops because he insisted that it didn't happen, and if it did, the cops who followed the rules hated them more than the public ever could, but he did make me promise him that if I was ever arrested for anything, even if I was innocent, to shut up and call a lawyer. Kind of a trust the cops... but they're not your dad philosophy.

Watching cop shows is always amusing with him because a detective will make a statement about where the assailant was standing and my dad might retort "not with that blood spatter pattern" or they might conduct a search and he would say - that's illegal, wouldn't happen.

So what do you plan to tell children about your job? Or relatives at the holiday dinner about your work?