Actually, the joke was on _you_. PUPD is the highest paid university PD in state. They make around $8,000 more a year than IU cops. They treat their people well, and I have never heard one complaint from an officer. You are right, some veteran officers that tend to grow, and grow, and grow could never pass a PT exam if they wanted to leave, but when you can easily clear $60K/year with OT (some of that watching college basketball and football games), why would you want to leave? Yea, I doubt they get the take home car, but that is only worth around $3,000/year unless your the kind of officer that drives it _everywhere_.
So laugh all you want, those cops are making $60K+/year and trust me, it ain't that hard of a job being a glorified babysitter!! Why bust your hump at a municipal PD when you can have the same, or better pay, working in a better environment, doing less work?
As far as the cursing, just a sign of the times if you ask me. I think there is a difference between swearing someone" ("You MFer!") and using swear words as part of the conversation: ("Get on the MFing ground!"). As far as never using swear words, that is laughable. There are some folks of people that I _have_ to use swear words. No, I am not swearing at them, but I am using them, usually as adverbs/descriptors. Why? This is how _those_ folks were raised, it is their language. They don't understand my college degree professional drivel, it sounds like a foreign language to them. Maybe the guy just got done dealing with a forth generational welfare type who uses F-bombs, S-bombs, etc. every other word (and not just out of meanness, just talks that way) or some kid who just go back from the war. Can you give him a pass for one time, or do you need to sack his personnel file because of this horror that was placed upon you? I would say if it was one word, one time, give the person a pass. It was every other word, joking, not joking, whatever, then yea, I would understand someone filing a complaint.
