Clinton Jaws - I Quit the RCMP Process

Episode Date: October 23, 2021

Clinton Jaws tells the story when he decided to stop trying to become a cop and the reason for quitting the RCMP Process. It can be hard to get into police training and it took Clinton Jaws years to be accepted into the RCMP Depot Training. This is a short clip from a live stream that is only available if you join the join button. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWxFkykJzUk32iGqzSzXNYQ/join Got a question give me a call hotline number 604-330-2512 Call it. https://www.instagram.com/clintonjaws/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3hWntbop6gLEg6RFR0aOzJ https://www.facebook.com/clinton.jaws.7/ https://twitter.com/ClintonJaws #policepodcast #rcmppodcast #clintonjaws

I had a diploma. I don't know if it did anything for me. I'm blind. Chris Perry, here's a question. What would you have done years ago if you had washed out with the force? Oh, that's a good question. I gave up on trying to become a cop. I tried to become a cop.

I don't know. Like, it seemed like for 10 years, I don't even know. Failed the test a few times. Couldn't pass the test. When I finally did, it wasn't good, wasn't good enough for a white male. They were only taking 65 white mail. At one point, they shut down depot when I was trying to become a cop.

And so I applied, I'm sitting at home. And I'm like, I got to do something. I can't work for Shaw Cable anymore. Okay. I was selling Shaw at home. Remember Shaw at home? I was in the mall selling it to people. I made a killing, but I couldn't, that wasn't a career.

And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to be a newscaster. I'm going to apply to news school. I forget what it's called. And that's what I did. I actually applied to news school, got everything ready. And I'm sitting downstairs in my lonely, I guess it was a townhouse. People were a bunch of kids.

There was like four kids, university kids upstairs, really young guys. And they come down, knock on my door one day. And they give me an envelope. And I'm like, what's this? And they go, and I look at it. It's from the RCMP. And I'm like, what? And he goes, yeah, it's been up here for, I think, over a month.

I wrote the test. I got 380, 3.80 on the new test. I knew I was never going to get higher than that. And I got a letter that said, you're not going to become a cop. Well, it didn't say that. It said, sorry, your score wasn't high enough. And I was like, I'm not writing it again. I can't. I know I'm not going to get better. They changed the test on me. So I only wrote that new test once.

And so after a year had passed, I could write the test, but I chose not to. I was like, I'm not going to become a cop. It's not going to happen. I'll go to new school, I guess. See how that works out. And so they knock on my door one day and they give me this envelope. I open it up and they go, we've reconsidered people. we've lowered the score for white males basically. For girls, girls are minorities. They only needed 3.2. And they said, we need you to do the pair test.

You need to do your typing. You need to hand in your application. And it was all expired. They wanted me to do this like months ago or two months ago. But because they gave me the mail too late. So I phoned up recruiting. And they were like, oh, no problem. I was like, okay.

And then I was thinking, do I want to do this? I kind of got worried. So I called up my dad and me and my dad were talking. He's like, he got nothing to lose, man. Go to Deppel. If you don't like it, then don't do it. And yeah, so I filled out that application, went to the Namo, Malaspina University gym, and did the pair test,

ran up to the push pole. I couldn't push, I could barely push it in. And the instructor said to my dad when they were watching me practice, he can come back and do it again if he doesn't pass. And I don't know. I ended up passing. I nailed it. My dad was like, what the hell is going on?

Like, how'd you pass that? You couldn't even push it in. That was all adrenaline. And the instructor said, but it wasn't. It was my shoes. I found out later when I went to Deppel, my shoes were slipping on the gym floor. It was like I was wearing socks. I had no grip.

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