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Personal Narrative: Becoming A Boston Police Officer

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We were on a tour of the prison and that’s when the call came. “Breakout on Unit 3, we need backup.” Lieutenant Fitzy ran off to the lunchroom. The other officer in charge turned to us and commanded to be in a straight line against the wall. From where we were, we could see through the glass of the door, bodies flying on each other. It looked like a football game, except this chaos wasn’t a game.

By now I had been working in the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department for about 2 months.
It was a summer internship I’d been accepted to through my school. My aspiration is to be involved with law enforcement either by becoming a state trooper or a Boston police officer. When I heard about the internship, I knew I couldn’t let this opportunity
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