Hou says he often thinks back to the first few years after he graduated from the police academy, and how he thought of himself as one of the good guys out there against the bad guys, whom he hated passionately. With his service revolver in his trouser pocket he would go out with two other officers to work on cases.
侯友宜說，他常想起剛從警大畢業那幾年，正邪兩立、嫉惡如仇，經常褲袋裡插上警槍，帶著兩個刑警，就外出辦案了。