John Spent Decades as a Law Professor. Then, at 77, He Joined the Police Academy and Became California’s Oldest Rookie Cop: “This Is the Last Thing on My Bucket List”

John Myers spent most of his adult life teaching law. The Davis, California, man taught for the last decade of those years at UC Law San Francisco, according to KCRA 3 in Sacramento, and by any normal measure he had already earned a quiet retirement.

Instead, at 77, he enrolled in a police academy.

KCRA reporter Jason Marks and photojournalist Victor Nieto followed Myers through the San Joaquin Delta College POST Academy in Stockton for a July 2025 report. Myers told the station the idea had been with him since he was a boy…