Beyond The Badge

A Utah officer polices the streets despite a terrifying incident in his first few months on the job that could have cut his career very short. On Dec. 13, 2012, officer Jared Jensen was four months into his service with the Sunset Police Department when he came face to face with a man who had a grudge. "It was a scary thing that you don't really expect to happen," he said. "I noticed this individual on the north side of the road, kind of giving me an odd stare," he explained. "He lifted up his sweatshirt and pulled a handgun from his waistband and continued to fire eight rounds into my vehicle." Several of those shots hit the vehicle's window, Jensen noted. "One hit our little plastic plexi-glass frame we have between our drivers seat and our cage. It's merely plexi-glass, however that day it stopped a bullet." "More progressed through the window, coming across my steering wheel and into the computer we have mounted over here," he continued. "I believe there were two in the computer, several glanced off the s