Dismissed

My case were the boyfriend knocked her over a chair and attempted to drag her out of the house, scrapping her legs and arms, is dismissed. Court was to be at the end of the month, but the DA notified the case is done.

The other deputy talks to the DA, the victim didn't want to cooperate and her story has changed.

Happy Birthday

Dispatched to a barking dog call, a disturbance pops up.
I am two blocks off and arrive to find Alan, Beth and Samatha. It is Alan's 21st birthday and he is drunk. Beth, Alan's girlfriend is crying.
"Alan is drunk and talking crazy", she has marks on her neck and huge bruise on her arm.
-where did you get those?
"alan did a couple days ago"

Alan wanders out of the house, drunk and cooperative. I have him sit down and talk to Samatha, who is Alan's ex-girlfriend, and Beth.

-beth what do you want done?
"i'm fine"
-do you want to cooperate and give a statement?
"i won't say anything. I'm fine".
-okay, whatever you want. I understand. I don't want to get into an investigation and have you not give a statement. I want to make sure you are safe.
Beth looks at Samatha, who say "he beat me up and did the same thing to me"

Beth looks down.
-you have to do what is best for you in the long run. if you are okay with him beating the crap out of you....
Beth "i want to give a statement"

Alan goes to jail on his Birthday

10 hours days

A plan has been put into place to go 10 hour days. There will only be two shifts. the way we respond to call and which calls we will respond to will also change.

Same guy Same charge

Officer B calls and asks if i want a DUII. It will be coming on 6th street in 15 minutes, driving a red honda.
-you mean Gillman?
"yes"
-I gave him his first one. I know what he drives.

I arrested Gillman for DUII two months ago. After nearing hitting a car head on and swerving. I found him excuting a 20 point turn and reviving the engine in the middle of the road, to drunk to stand, hand gun in car, two pints of Vodka in the car.

I get wait 15 minutes, Gillman pass me. I get behind him and watch him swerve in his lane for two blocks. I stop him. Gillman smells like alcohol and has slurred speech. Gillman has blood on his hand and coming out of nose, but doesn't know he is bleeding. There is a half gallon of whiskey in the back seat.
"DD?!" he smirks, recognizing me.

I ask him out of the car, his belt is undone and fly unzipped. Gillman fails all of the test.
I ask where his gun is.
"under the seat cover on the passenger seat"
it is there and loaded a .38

I take him to jail. He walks and talks and blows a .27%.
Last time he was a .47%

Surfboard

Having contact with the lesbian couple three days in a row, my last contact shows the younger girlfriend, sitting behind the wheel of a car and on the nod. I wait for her to drive and stop her.

Kay is friendly, slow moving and sluggish. That is why I know she is on drugs, she is usually argumentative and snarky. Kay does the tests, her eyes tell they story.

Waiting to blow at the jail, Kay wakes up and begins arguing every little statement with me.
"You are a surfboard. You are flat"
-i'm a surfboard? I'm obtuse?"
"Your mom didn't raise you right"
Kay stalls and argues. I hand her off to a Drug Recognition Evaluator and leave.

I call the DRE the next day to see if my suspicions were correct. He informs me that it took 3 hours, because she was stalling. DRE says " on medications, most likely downers"

Good Cop/Bad Cop

Working with M, fresh from a long 8 month tour working schools. M is a little rusty shagging calls. M covers me a lot. I am familiar with a lot of the frequent flyers and get to be bad cop. I let him swoop him and be the good cop. M is a good talker and they are eager to talk to someone who won't tell them they are liars.

That is the way most of the calls go. M is primary on a possible DUII. M gets to be bad cop. The lady plays dumb and isn't cooperating. M steps and continues to hound her and then lets it sink in.

M doesn't have enough to arrest, but grills her. The lady breaks down, explaining her boyfriend is a drunk and worthless. I step in and start talking.
-you can have him evicted and get a restraining order against him. this is how you do it.
"really?"
-yes, if you are unhappy and want to take control start by doing this. here are some numbers that are better counsellors than me. If you drink don't drive. You are better than that. We don't want you to kill yourself or anyone else. Do you want to kill someone?
"no"

M and I walk off.
"I like doing bad cop/good cop. It's nice to do bad cop for a change."
-yeah I am good at the bad cop thing. It gives you an edge.

Religion

Two separate calls, both involving religion.
The first is a couple. The female beats up and pushes around the other female. They lie every time the we show up which has been no fewer than 9 times in the last 6 months. Neighbors and couples children tells bits of the story, but the couple always lie.

Tired of lies, I ask if they are going to stop lying.
"I am a good christian. I will swear on a stack of bibles"

We leave, unable to get the truth. My cover, a new pup says
"you know how you can tell a good christian? they don't tell you they are a good christian".

The second call involves a young couple, who got into a domestic.
-what happened?
"we got into an argument about religion and jesus"
-then what happened?
"I got so mad. I wanted her to understand"
He ended up backhanding her and pushing her down on the ground and holding her to the ground...putting his hands around her neck.

He cried the whole way to the jail

The word

The word is that all patrol deputies are safe. the jail will be cut down 7 jobs and matrix will be put into effect.

Brass will revise how and which calls we will respond.

A box of donuts

Having your picture in the newspaper or being on television, earns you the right to buy donuts for the shift, especially if they mention you by name.