Sunday, October 31, 2010

Doug

Searching the area for a robbery suspect who fled and stopping several people who fit the description.
Doug comes from behind a deserted business, out of breath and in a hurry.
Doug is stopped and is evasive.
"I just came from Goodwill. I bought this coat"
-If we check the goodwill camera we will see you on it?
"uhm....I'll be honest I was taking a dump behind that building"

Doug describes the location, behind the building. I search the area behind the building. Sure enough there is a pile of shit. There is also a distinct set of footprints leading the the fence. A fence that goes into a junk yard. The prints go into the yard and then back out. The prints then go to the side of the building where there car parts set aside.

I go back to Doug and look at his shoes. The same prints going into the junkyard. Doug denies it at first and then fess up.
"I took a shit and then took the shit."

Beth

A call comes in for a welfare check.
A young lady is crying and screaming at the side of the road.
I arrive to find three teenagers by the side of the road.
One approaches
"She just hit her own dog", the lady points to a black dog lying at the side of the road.
Her brother let the dog out and it got loose. She couldn't see it and was blinded when people were flashing their lights to warn her of a loose dog.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Quote of the day

after dealing with 3-4 people on the telephone, all involved in the equivalent of a 6th grade argument. I get to call the last party involved, a sex offender.
I instruct him not to call on of the people involved and he starts with a lengthy tale of woe.
-you have sorely overestimated my interest in this matter. do you understand stop calling?
"yes"

My sgt. walks by
"I like that phrase, I'm going to use it."

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Locker

Being off a couple days, I check my work email to discover 2 new emails from Lt and Sgt.
I open both with the attached pictures of my locker...now addorned with pictures of the Backstreet boys, complete with messages from band members.
Both the Sgt and Lt are shocked about my devotion to the band.

Can't beat the guys I work with.

Monday, October 18, 2010

Fight

Went to my first fight where, one side was a deaf-mute.
The pad of paper I keep was never so handy.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Energy

Down more than half of our officers.
No words of encouragement from brass.
No new hiring.
And word that we could possibly lose another quarter of our officers.
Morale is at a low.
shifts are long and officers are tired.

Numbers

Waiting for the last 10 minutes of my shift to pass. I pull up the Calls For Service (CFS) tracker on the computer.
It can go by dates and officer. Curious I check the stats for the year.

DD 2219 call since 1/01/10
Traffic Dog 1919
Snarky Dog 876
Investigator 1219
M Dog 626
Water Dog 520
R Dog 620

Now granted M and R dog are FTO's and pups to handle calls, no one was close to the amount of calls except Traffic Dog, who would do 30 traffic stops a night.

I also checked the amount of calls of the dogs hired the same time as me. I have 4 times that amount of CFS, as those two.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Challenged

Challenged by an old Sgt, who says you can't talk to passengers in a traffic stop.
He quotes and old bit of case law that has been repealed.
The whole shifts knows better and states it is outdated, using the phrase
"we can talk to passengers all we want...we can ask them if they like ponies"

Sgt challenges "you ain't worth a hair on a dogs ass if you can't get a complaint involving ponies!"
Every officers smiles.

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Neil

Neil doesn't get it.
After appearing in his neighbors yard in the middle of the night, peering in the teenage daughter's window and banging on the door.
Neil doesn't understand he shouldn't be on the neighbors property.
The next night Neil is in the neighbors yard, again. The neighbor has had it.

My Sgt and I go talk to Neil. I talk Neil through why it maybe a bad idea to peek in a teenage girl's window in the middle of the night, especially after being warned by her father.
Neil doesn't get it. He has been going slowly crazy for a while and admits to watching the neighbor's kids, because he can't see his own kids. Neil stopped taking his medication a while ago.

Sgt and I start to handcuff him. Neil starts asking what is going on.
Neil gets froggy and starts pulling away.
Sgt and I take him to the ground.
Neil's face bounce off the wall of his house and then goes into the ground. He struggles even with my knee in his back and the other on his neck.
I explain to him that this will continue until he relaxes.
Neil stops struggling and we get him up and put him in the car.