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ethnic and minority groups, he once helped to deliver a baby to a Spanish-speaking woman, who spoke no English. Smiling wryly, Watson says he doubts he’ll repeat any of these experiences as a trooper in Rappahannock.
“I GUESS people are the same everywhere,” Watson said, ‘‘but in New York everyone wears a hard shell; you almost have to. You’re one in eight million, where everybody’s a number and not a person. * Nobody’s personality shows through. So you keep your guard up, too.” Almost immediately, Watson recognized the lack of that kind of closed, defensive attitude in Rappahannock County, he said. ‘‘People are more relaxed here. So you can be more relaxed in your job as a police officer.”
The public’s attitude toward a police officer’s job is different in the country, Watson said. ‘‘After we moved here, you could sense immediately the respect that people here have for tradition and authority. That filters over into their attitude toward a police officer. Unlike here, everything changes so fast in the city, no one ever puts down roots.”
‘‘But the city is a good place to make money,” he said. As a trooper, Watson makes less than half what he did as a New York city policeman. And despite what many people think, it’s not so expensive to live in New York, Watson said. “I know food was a lot cheaper, and some appliances, like
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