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  • Michael Saad at age 42 and age 52, showing two different stages of his life and career.
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    What turning 52 has taught me about starting over

    Starting over sounds like going back to the beginning, but at 52, I don’t think that’s what it means. I have started over in a few different ways over the last several years. I came back to policing after being away from it for a long time. I went through the police academy again, twenty-eight…

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  • Michael Saad taking a gym photo while preparing to return to the police academy
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    How I’m preparing to return to the police academy after 28 years

    The first time I went through the police academy was in 1998. On January 19, I’ll start all over again. Because I’ve been out of law enforcement for more than 15 years, my Alabama certification is no longer active, so I have to complete the whole academy. There isn’t a shortened version based on the…

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Michael Saad is a law enforcement veteran whose career has taken him around the world and eventually back to where it started.

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