What have been your favorite and least favorite stories from being on the job?
February 9, 2021
Officer Douglas:
- Favorite: My favorite thing on this job has been when someone finds me well after I had contact with them and tells me how much my interaction with them changed their life. It is totally satisfying to know that I made a difference. I even had one woman who I arrested three separate times tell me that I saved her life with those arrests. She said she would not have turned her life around without me interrupting it at the time.
- Least Favorite: We walk in on people’s worst day. We deal with a lot of death. Most of the death makes sense when people are very elderly or very sick but I have had to listen to a mom wail while holding her deceased 4-month old perfect looking baby. I have had to do CPR on a 7-year-old that did not make it while her dad watched. Law Enforcement sees what no human should have to see and that makes for some pretty dark days.

Officer Ryan Douglas has been a police officer since 2007. He is in his third school year of being a School Resource Officer at Silver Creek. He has been...
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