Networking with other retirees can really be helpful. Police social functions like the occasional PBA dinner are good for you. Get involved in your community in some aspect-volunteering, creating a business, coaching youth, and so forth.ĭon’t ignore your old friends in the PD. If you’re ready for more of a clean break from cop culture, don’t just retire without a plan for positive social engagement. That keeps you in the culture and aids to that sense of still belonging. Consider teaching part-time at a community college or an academy. In my case I was able to transition right from retirement into my new role as an instructor for Calibre Press’ Street Survival Seminars. Learn to rely on them for support and strength. You’re going to spending a lot more time with both. Time and space don’t permit a total examination or recitation of the reasons or ramifications of pulling the pin, but let me touch on a few helpful tips that made the “pin pull” easier for yours truly. Change is always stressful, but it can be devastating when it comes in one large dose like it often does after retirement. The transition from “cop” to “civilian” isn’t an easy one, especially when cops have only socialized with other cops during those two or more decades on the job. Is it all that surprising that when they experience that period of adrenaline withdrawal the impact can be devastating? Years and years of that sudden adrenaline dump when responding to high-stress calls has an almost addictive effect on cops. The police psychologists I’ve spoken to agree that the impact adrenaline has on cops can be significant. It’s more than a loss of power or not belonging to the brotherhood anymore. And anyone who’s spent 20 years or more “on the street” knows that the years take their toll emotionally. It’s been said that law enforcement isn’t just a job. Which brings me to the point of this piece: pulling the pin. He almost made it to the front when one old crusty detective looked at George’s “retired” detectives tin, pointed his thumb back over his shoulder and said, “Back of the line, bucko. He tinned two or three coppers, telling them he wasn’t going into the range to shoot, just wanted to get to the range office to pick up his snubby. George was running late for an appointment in this instance and tried to bump ahead of a few cops who were in line waiting to qualify by flashing his retired detective tin.
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At the time, it was NYPD policy to allow retired officers to keep their old weapons and have the make, model, and serial numbers entered on their carry permits. George had retired some time before and had occasion to be at the police range where he was getting his old duty snub-nose revolver issued to him. who was a CJ professor at John Jay College in NYC.
That last line actually came from a retired NYPD cop I know, George Olivet, Ph.D. Long story short, he didn’t get a ticket that evening.
It was just, as he put it, “a blank spot where my shield went.” He said it really hit him hard when he saw the opening where his shield used to be. It takes a few weeks for the PD to cast these “retired” badges. He hadn’t received his “retired” shield yet.
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He recently had occasion to “interact” with a uniform traffic officer: Shortly after his retirement, he made a right turn on a red light and was pulled over.Īs he was removing his operator’s license (which all smart retired cops keep behind their retired badges) he noticed the cut out in his wallet where his tin was formerly kept. Just prior to my retirement, I was dining with Tommy McGee at a PBA function, and he related the moment he fully realized that he was no longer on the job. Speaking of retired badges, I’m reminded of a conversation I had with one of my retired buds a long time ago. But for all intents and purposes, my wallet badge has read “retired” since 1990.
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I also continued my professional contacts as a police instructor, court expert and part-time college C.J.
Since then, I’ve maintained my professional affiliations through Calibre Press, Inc., as both a Street Survival Seminar instructor and contributor to their online magazine,. I’ve been out of operational law enforcement for almost 30 years.
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