What surprised you about policing when you first started?

I'll be honest, and it's just the amount of authority I had.

Like they gave you this police car and a partner and you go out and you're making decisions.

And I was a 23 maybe when I started, 22, 23.

And I remember saying to people going through marriage crises and going through severe

trauma, saying like in my more honest moments, like I don't exactly know what to tell you.

I'm 23 years old.

But I had the authority to make arrests.

I had the authority to write tickets.

I had the authority to pull and point to gun based on how I felt about danger.

And I thought that was like, it's an amazing feeling.

But now later on when you become a chief of police, you're sort of like yikes.

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

Yet another week here in the quarantine closet where God knows how long we'll be in the

quarantine closet.

It's a week in which I was hoping that, well, it's last week of school.

And I had started to allow myself, I made a huge mistake this week, which I started to

convince myself to be optimistic about the future, the trajectory of the virus.

And that's a mistake every time I've done it.

It's a, I'm talking to you on a Friday when Florida just set record cases and things

are not going in a great direction.

That is one of the two kind of major stories it's occupying our consciousness right now.

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