Recalling How He Went Bad

Collins shared what happened to him as an officer, and how he slowly went ‘bad.’ He says, “I don’t remember the first instance of doing something wrong, but I remember thinking of it as bending the rules instead of breaking the rules. By the end of my career, I was stealing money from citizens, I was stealing money from the city of Benton Harbor, I was lying on search warrants and on reports – things that I would have thought I never would have done four years earlier when I first became a police officer.”

The Beginning Of The End

Collins goes on to explain that his life took a complete and total turn once he found Jesus. He says that everything hit rock bottom when illegal drugs were found under his desk by his supervisors and his life as a police officer was over. As he contemplated ending his life, he says “My wife saw the desperation when she came home from work that day and said, ‘I think you need to go talk to a local pastor’.”