Always on the Clock

          My father is 65 years old, and worked as a police officer in New Jersey, and California for about 15 years. It is immensely apparent that his work as a police officer is apart of his identity. After seeing some of the things he has seen, and experiencing the different scenarios, he will always be a police officer at heart.
          It is amazing how good this man is at reading people. He can pick someone out of a crowd, and explain how just some of the little things that person does, reveals that they are up to no good. He is also very thought based when he is in a predicament. Before he tries anything, he thinks long and hard about what would make it easiest, fastest, and most efficient. All the qualities that made him an excellent police officer, he still uses today.
          One of the biggest qualities that sticks out the most in my father is his skepticism. He is not one who trusts easily. Someone has to prove to him that they are trustworthy before he will trust them. It gets annoying at times because he tends to be negative a lot and skeptical about doing certain things, but his time as a cop made him like this. It is very easy to see that he was an excellent cop because he is right about 95% of the time on his hunches. His time in the field of law enforcement may have stopped, but his police officer mentality will always be a part of him.