At age 51, Patrick Carr swapped a thriving business for a patrol car. Carr's epiphany came in 2017 when he was president and owner of Broadway Screen Printing and Embroidery in Siloam Springs. One day he looked at his wife and said, "I want to be a cop."
"It's been a great career change for me," he said.
Discounting the idea that he might be too old or out of shape, he applied to the Siloam Springs Police Department and went through the police academy.
"I laugh and tell people I had a midlife crisis at 50. It's been the joke, but there's probably some truth to it. What sane 50-year-old man - 51 by that time - decides he wants to go through military-style academy and do defensive tactics and get beat on?"
After a couple of years with the Siloam Springs Police Department, a friend with the McPherson, Kan., Police Department offered Carr a job. Quickly moving up to detective, he "worked all kinds of cases: everything from child abuse to child pornography, embezzlement, rape cases. You name it."
Last year Carr became sergeant over professional standards and training.
"Now I'm not out chasing bad guys, but I'm teaching people how to do it and providing the best training we can,"...
Source: https://talkbusiness.net/2026/04/then-and-now-carr-changes-careers-in-police-work-in-kansas/
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