Beau Brooks

[fatboy3288]

My name is Beau Brooks and I was born and raised in Savanna Georgia. When I was a young mud slinging rascal one of my favorite games was cops and robbers. I would play that game like no other, I would put in the effort to be a cop and think like a cop. And if I ever got to play a robber, I would do my darnest best to be a better robber than what other kids would normally try to be. I knew that back then just as I know now about something called contradictions, you see?
Then came the times of growing up, and I surely wasn’t expecting paradise but to see violence rear its ugly head on my front lawn and all around me was all the rattling and the shaking a kid could take. I saw domestic violence take over many of a household, mine included. I am my father’s son, but I ain’t gonna sugar coat his many faults, namely that of the liquor and the smoking. My mom never had a chance to see him become a better man since she died before I turn 13 and my dad only came around as I got older and so learned how to help him, and he let himself be helped, indeed. I must have been 17 by then. And also by then, I’d already witnessed a fatal shooting, a drunken violent brawl, and even the burning of a man alive. Yeah. Tough. Seeing death straight in the face, and how it consumes a body, and a soul, it’s crushing, I ain’t lying. People underestimate what it means to have the weight and the fate of a man’s life in your hands through the barrel of a gun, or the symbol of a badge. No easy thing, never ever. Most especially when tempers are high and unrest is the order of the day.
I did my best to help my community before I enrolled at the military academy and then for police. In the end, I kept close to my people. I went back eager to help as a young 21 or 22 year old man, and I found a friend and mentor in Deputy Barnes, you may have heard of him. God don’t make’em like that no more. Honorable, amiable, capable, those are the three words I think best describe him.
Anyways, he taught me all I know about being a cop, a true cop, a true police officer. Knowing your community well, talking to people, knowing people, doing the necessary ground work, you know? Know who’s who beyond a file or a mugshot and a sheet of paper. And knowing that sometimes people do bad things cause they think they have no choice. I understand that as much. Violence is a cycle, and I would hate for a cop to perpetuate that with senseless violence and a war that ain’t no war but some politicians' smart move for the press.
I think I should be selected because I’m here to bring all my values and my lessons to share with partners and citizens alike. I shall get to know Los Santos like the back of my hand, like the center of my soul, God willing. I shall make this department proud, and put the motto of Protect and Serve where it rightfully belongs, along with Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

Edited February 25, 2021 by fatboy3288