Pros
Pros are 10 hour days, so you have 3 days off a week. Patrol jobs require 2 weekends a month. Detective jobs are generally only 4 days of work between Monday and Friday, so no weekends unless there is a call out due to patrol needing assistance with the investigation. Would consider this a department with relatively low corruption. Pay is okay for officers, ranging approximately from 35,000-65,000; more if you promote. Decent retirement. Health insurance is free for employees; $450 a month for family, regardless of size.
Cons
Cons: workplace is heavily influenced by local and national politics. The lower level officers do not completely trust all the command staff or the city management. This sentiment may not be the same in the higher ranks who are no longer enforcing laws on a daily basis. Crime is rising locally and the risk is increasing for the officers, both due to the risk of death by a criminal, being fired for any violations the command staff perceive you have committed, or as of the year 2020, the risk of being imprisoned for doing your job (this is due to the current political climate).