Joshua Steinberg

Joshua Steinberg is an LAPD SWAT officer.
== Biography ==
Born in LA to a wealthy Jewish businessman and an actress in 1985 as an only child, Steinberg grew up in a life of privilege and was expected to continue in his father's footsteps and inherit the business, or start one of his own, or at least get some kind of white-collar, managerial, well-paid job. None of this ever appealed to Steinberg though. Even though he lived in a nice area and went to a high-quality private school, he would go through the ghettos of LA to get to his school and he would find himself disgusted with the state of things in those areas. During the 1992 LA riots, when Joshua was 7 years old, he would find himself and his family in the wrong part of town, where bottles and rocks were thrown at them by looters that didn't like the look of them. The roads were blocked off, so they had to escape on foot, when a single veteran cop who had defied orders to enter the area and help civilians, with the assistance of some Korean vigilantes, found the family and escorted them to safety, where a family friend could drive them home. From this moment, Steinberg wanted to become a cop so he could restore order to chaos like that man did, as he seemed like a true hero in the child's eyes.
Steinberg's family was never supportive of his dream to become a police officer. They said that there was no money in it and that the police were not to be respected or admired. This likely made him want to join even more just to rebel against them. This did stop him from joining as soon as he could though, he first went through university and earned a postgraduate degree, then worked at his father's company for a couple of years. However, when he was 28 in 2013, he joined the LAPD and became a SWAT officer in 2016.
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