What telling me you used to be a cop, or an ICE gestapo pig, or a soldier, or a CIA ghost, or a Republican, or what the fuck ever your redemption without atonement story happens to be, is that at least ONCE in your life, your judgement failed you so catastrophically that you ended up doing fascism for rich people to harm us all. You chose "fuck you all" once already.
It's not an asset. At least not to me. But I'm from dogshit Amerikkka - where something something "thank you for your service."