Phone Calls

a recent shooting of LE, have resulted in quick phone calls to an officer who left my pond and recently went to that agency. he is fine, but concerned with wounded officer.

If you ....

If you are going to give fake names to police officer, make sure the last one isn't your real name, especially if you run off.

Repeat Customers

Responding to a bar for an assault call. Rob the bouncer walks us to Tim.
Tim is laying in handcuffs on the ground, with a bloody nose.
Rob states the told Tim was peeing in the parking lot next to the bar. They told Tim not to do so. Tim came back to the bar and started throwing punches at the bouncers, landing the first punch, but by the looks of it may have taken more than he gave.

Rob tells Tim that he can come back in a month and isn't pressing charges.
Tim stumbles home.
Tim calls two hours later, he has sobered up a little.
"I was assaulted"
-no, you threw a punch
"they can kick my ass?
-you shouldn't drink
"they handcuffed me"
-Tim. when you throw a punch, you are asking another person to a fight, in this case, they accepted. Just because you are on the losing side doesn't mean you can call and press charges, especially since you started it. I would suggest not drinking and not fighting.

A Team

The new 12 hour shift has caused on officer to name our shift the "A-team".
We now have 5 on a shift. It is nice to show up with the numbers to calls; specially fights.
Responding to an "assault" at a bar, I am informed by my cover unit that the suspect names is a bouncer.
I arrive and talk to the "victim". Joe was in the bar and assisted breaking up a fight. The next thing he knows he is being choked out and thrown out of the bar. In the midst of telling me what happened, Joe's friend walks right up and starts talking to me.
He is greeted by a flashlight push in the chest
-step back
"i was assaulted too!
-wait your turn.
My cover officer motivates him to walk to the front of my car

he pouts at the front of my car. another couple of units show up to talk to the buddy.
I talked to Paul the bouncer. A drunken Joe jumped on the bouncer's back in attempts to break up the fight, being more of a combatant than anything else. Other security confirms it, that is why he was escorted from the bar, never choked.

Security 86's Joe, I deliver the message.
-so there was no assault and you are trespassed from the property.
"so there is no crime, what is my legal options"
-i'm not a lawyer, leave the property

Year later

Roughly year after spending 5 hours on King's Highway in the cold with a stand-off. There is another stand-off in 14 degree weather.
Matt is high on meth and 8 other drugs. Holding his wife hostage, "accidentally" firing a pistol into a car with his infant son.
Matt fires 4-5 shots off his porch into the woods, where officers are surrounding the house. I listen as Officer R talks to the wife and Matt on the phone.
"he has the gun to my head"
Matt is convinced after 5 hours to leave the house.
Wife denies that Matt held a gun to her head and upset that Matt was pushed when taken into custody. Opposed to the 4 times a sniper had a clear shot.

Reserve

Now with fewer officers we have an influx of people in the reserve program.
Most hoping for a job when times get better.

I have Joe with me, newly uniformed and eager to get out of the car finally.
Joe is introduce to one of the local natives.
A 20 yr old alcoholic female, Ami, known to resist and generally be unpleasant.

"D.D. welfare check on female yelling in crying in a field"
Officer K arrives 10 seconds before me in the area where Ami lives and usually walks drunkly.

K is out with female who is sitting in the snow holding on to the base of a mailbox.
I get out of the car with Joe and ask dispatch to run Ami the Drunk. Sure the sobbing female is Ami.

Ami is crying and yelling at K to leave her alone.
K asks her to stand up and be cooperative
"FUCK YOU PRICK"

Knowing Ami's predispostion to fight/spit/kick, I grab her, pick her up and put her into an arm bar bending her at the waist. Ami starts to spit but only sees the ground.

Joe steps into position and handcuffs her, without being told. I start to put Ami into my car.
"Don't touch me you honkie!" and the insults erupt for Ami
-do you want Joe to help you into the car, he is hispanic?
"FUCK that spic bastard. I hate MEXICANS!"

Ami gets into the car and we drive to the detox center. Ami continues the insults, stating I could be arresting "rape-O's", "fuckers" and real criminals.
"I was only a block from my house. FUCKER! you are just picking on me"

Joe can't believe how Ami behaves. We get to the detox center, who will not take her after they find out it is Ami.
"I told you were wasting my time. Stupid Honkie"

I transport her to the hospital. Ami steps up her verbal aggression.
" I am going to murder your family. You will drown in blood." She begins to scream at the top off her lungs.
-I can't hear you
Joe's eyes grow big.

Ami works herself into a fury, but calms down right as I get her to the hospital.
Security meets us with a wheelchair. Ami refuses to get into the wheelchair. I explain she can do what is asked of her or I will make her.

Ami walks.
I get her into the admitting room, past a room full of people waiting to be seen.
Ami last all of 10 seconds before she is screaming
"FUCK YOU!"
I hook my arm into her bicep and pick her up, bending her over at the waist.

It takes 5 hold her down and remove her clothes. She manages to spit at Joe and the trauma nurse, who barely avoid it.

-Ami remember we don't have to do things this way. If you behave like an ass you will be treated like one. If you want to be treated reasonably, behave that way.

"I have been treated like shit, so I don't give a shit"
-well Ami I will treat you as nice as you behave.

Joe is amazed in the car.
"what is with her? how can anybody be like that?"
-some people are don't know any better, don't want to try and think that is the way you behave. welcome to LE

New Year

The new year brought the new shift schedule and hours. One 12 hour shift, 3pm-3am.
My day starts at 11 am, called in by Lt. to a possible DV assault in edge of pond.
Hampered by icy roads it take a hour to get there, only to discover at best it was a harassment; brother's girlfriend threw a plastic cup at brother leaving a small cut on his nose.
It takes a hour to get back. Now 2 pm, my shift starts at 3 pm. I start shagging pending calls until shift starts.
On the rollover of shifts the other guys all worked until about 9 am, due to all the fights on New Year's Eve.
I poach all their calls, allowing them to catch up with the paper.
2 am comes around and an assault call comes in.
"Man at his neighbor's house with multiple stab wounds"
My shift ends at 4:30, home by 5am.