What it’s like to be a new police officer | The Recruits

Berlinda Cato is a rookie Sacramento Police officer, and trained at the same academy Davis Police officer Natalie Corona, and Sac PD officer Tara O’Sullivan graduated from in 2018. Both had less than a year on the job before they were killed, responding to what seemed like routine calls. Their deaths are a grim reminder that the dangers officers face begin the day they hit the streets. To understand what it’s like on the job as a rookie cop, reporter Michael Anthony Adams rode along with Officer Cato ju