Prowlers beware!

Our crew has successfully apprehended 3 seperate sets of prowlers in the past few weeks!!! dominate!!!!! I hate those bastards. These dudes last night screwed up cause they stole credit cards which makes it a C class felony!!!! Yes!!!!! Score!!!! ONe of them sang like a bird and ratted out his buddy!!! Awesome!

dry spell gone!

I tell ya I have been going through the worst dry spell concerning tickets/arrests etc. Seems like lately I cant' even find expired tabs on the road.

Well it was storm city USA and I felt like those guys on discovery channels "storm chasers". The worst part was a 60 foot tree falling on some power lines. I thought it was okay relatively until my sarge came by and said uh yeah those are live wires on the ground. Shweew glad he knows basic electrical stuff cause I sure dont!

Anyway I decided to embrace the huge rain and wind and just get out of the car.....started stopping cars for just about anything...sucked getting so rainy and poured on but it ended up being good. I caught three different suspended drivers tonight...yep got the ol hat trick yeeee haw.

Prostitution : Now I tell you what it is a legal nightmare to try and get convictions on these things let alone even arrests...you know it when you see it but its hard to prove. Me and my partner were sitting in our super-dirtbag area. Its riddles with prostitution and narcotic activity. We see a car see us and all of sudden drive past where they should have gone and continue into an abandoned industrial building parking lot.....thankfully we got a reason to stop the car and a 50 year old dude is in the car with a 19 year old female.

I contact the driver....he gives me his license which lists a local address just a little ways from where we are....you still live at blah blah blah ? Yeah......what are you doing down here? Well just giving her a ride home. Who is she? oh her name is blah blah blah....I go over to my partner who is contacting the girl and her name is not blah blah blah. Who is she to you sir your girlfriend....stutter....processes for lie...uh she is just a friend he says again. Suspicious that he is best friends with this girl yet doesnt even know her name.

The next 20 minutes consists of playing a defense attorney game trying to figure out how we can bust these people...we know what they are doing or just did and now it was a challenge trying to prove it......it involves alot of psychology and reverse psycology getting them to commit to their lies and silly stories/explanations and excuses then use that against them when they trip up. I eventually get him to admit to picking her up along the road and agreeing to pay money in exchange for sex. She partially admits to part of the story but in the end we had enough to charge her. I could have charged him but he finally came clean and relatively honest with me so I didn't want to punish him for that since he agreed to write a statement which helps the case. I still got an "arrest" from him for a suspended license and she got an "arrest" for prostitution but we didnt book em into jail cause our jurisdiction is kinda poor and we dont like to book people.

Who knows if it will hold up in court but it was a good experience and a learning one at that!

to be continued....

Hurray baton!

Very slow night last night.......we spent about 3 hours fussing around with a 9-1-1 cellular hangup call. The female on the line kept saying something about having a seizure so we spent alot of time trying to find her. It kept bouncing off different cell phone towers in the city....

After about 2 hours my partner located a car and the registered owner's name from the plate matched the name that was listed on the cell account....indeed we found her having a seizure in the car. The car was locked so out came the trusty ol ASP expandable metal baton. I've never broken a window before....I think I over swung a bit cause the thing exploded!! BOOM! Yeah baby. The dog inside the car did not like the excitement and got scared crapless and started attacking us so we improvised....the gal in the car had some crutches so we grabbed one of those and used it to pin the dog back while we worked. We were able to get the door unlocked and I was able to drag her out of the vehicle so the aid crew could get her.

Here is the rub....after feeling like total heros she was faking the whole thing in an attempt to get pain meds from the medics as she was a junkie. So stupid.

We found a bottle of vicodin on her that she had filled the previous day...15 pill prescription and there was only 1 left in the bottle...also in the car where phenerol patches...like a nicoderm patch but basically its super high strength pain medicine for things like oh I dunno terminal cancer..........so lame.

We got the dog out and took it into custody...poor little fella...I'm a dog lover so I hate it when they get left in the wake of trauma drama.....I bought the guy some canned food out of my own pocket as I wasnt sure if he had eaten in a few days as the gal is homeless and lives out of her car. He liked it but it was sad seing him in the kennel at the station every time I went there. I wish there was like a CPS for dogs so we could get it to a better home.

Psycho chick DV Call. Went and backed my partner up at a DV call...by the time I got there she was already in custody. She had apparently got real drunk and the boyfriend didnt want her in the house anymore so kicked her out.....this apparently was enough to make her punch him in the face several times...I love how all the DV classes I go to always presume the woman to be the innocent victim in all of these instances....I can honestly say I've found it to be at least 50/50 guys and girls at fault yet every dv class I've been to always uses verbage like "when HE goes to jail" "when SHE is hit by the man" its one of my pet peaves. She was a peach all the way to the jail...I could instantly tell she was very manipulative when talking to her. I dont have patience for those people and I told her that I was done listening to her beligerant self and the quiet treatment drove her nuts.......I was escorting her to the jail and when you do that you hold them by the arm...A to keep control of them and B to make sure they dont fall on their face in cuffs....I explained the latter to her and she kept saying quit MANHANDLING ME she then proceeded to kick at me and try and twist away from my grasp and she started to rear up like she was going to spit on me....hell no!!!!!! I did some creative HYUKFORKFU (slang for kung fu ninja moves) on her and pinned her up against the jail wall in the sally port....out of nowhere this ninja style custody officer chick came out and grabbed her like white on rice and she got some alone time in the rubber room. Its so funny how a 40 year old can have the mentality of a 5 year old. It was like she was throwing a fit in there a total tantrum meltdown. How do people get this way?

Real Police Work!

The guys got into a fat pursuit last night. Suicidal female who slit her wrists and then ran from us in her car all around the city then got on a major freeway and went about 10 miles...her car just about blew up halfway into it as her radiator couldnt handle the stress! OUr cars did just fine! God bless ye ol patrol cars and their awesomeness. Get to the scene and she is bleeding everywhere from her wrists the inside of her car looked like something out of a freddy kruger film. Get her out of the car and she is chewing on something...get her to spit it out and she expells about 50 RX pills from her mouth...YUK

CAR PROWLERS!....I hate car prowlers...no I loath them. Stupid bastards cant buy their own stuff so they have to reek havok on others...dumb bastards. Get a hot car prowl in progress....911 caller sees the suspect in her vehicle...get in the area and set up containment...in comes the hero...a valiant german shepard K-9 woooot!!!!! They ended up hunkering down in some woods which is exactly what you need to happen so their scent just soaks up the ground and eminates like hot steam on a cold day. They say a footprint on a fresh suspect emits an odor so strong its like fresh cut grass to you and I!!!!! That is just awesome....doggy finds them and ends up with a good bite on the suspect causing some cool injuries and bleeding...if you ask me serves em right....dont run from the POLICE! You cant outrun Motorolla and a kick ass dog! Amen!

Just a well rounded awesome shift.

Started off with tagging a couple speeders..kinda bread and butter...some people dont enjoy it but I dont mind at all...its just straight forward and simple...I like that.

Got 2 suspended drivers. I like these cause they are simple and they count as an arrest. Got one guy that I knew was suspended...saw his car and ran him via computer and sure enough he was suspended.

Got another gal who was suspended coming out of a local known drug area. I couldnt get my computer to work and she was way down the road by the time it came back I saw that she was suspended. She was a stripper and man did NOT look good...she has had alot of years that have not been kind to her I dont know how she stays in that profession and actually makes money. I thought they were supposed to make alot of money as well but apparently she snorts it all up her nose. Had the drug dog run through her car and the dog indicated. Amazing dog he hit on a small plastic baggie (about 1 inch square) that had a little bit of residue in it. We found her secret stash compartment in her car but it was empty we didnt tell her we found that so next time if we see her we will know where to look. Tried to get her to "work" meaning to flip on a bigger fish but she wouldnt play ball so she got the full suspended charge.

DUI. Stopped a car that was weaving a little bit. She had all kind of indicators of a typical drunk. You give them divided attention tests at the car like asking them small talk questions (where ya goin, where ya coming from sort of thing) while they try and find there license. Drunks can only do one thing at a time and sure enough every time I asked her a question she would stop looking for her license and look right at me to answer or ask "what"?. Car reaked of Alcohol. She was driving her friends home...she was the least blasted of all three of them so I guess they thought that was the safest thing to do. She was only 18 years old and didnt even have a drivers license..she admitted to me later that she had used a fake ID to get into a bar in a city far away...Her friend was on her 21 run and was completely blasted when i walked up to the car she (in the back seat) had her dress down fully exposing herself cause she had leaned out the back door to puke her guts out.

Ran the field sobriety tests on the driver...I hate doing those things cause there are so many things that you have to be very specific about as far as instructions etc...she was hammered...she refused to blow into my portable breath testing machine. I arrested her for DUI cause you dont need much when its a minor...only a .02...got her to the BAC facility (the official blow test) and she lawyered up real quick...got her lawyer on the phone. There are several places they have to sign as your going through the forms and its not an admission of guilt just a receipt of acknowledgement that I read them certain legal items as far as constitutional rights etc and man she was so blasted she kept stalling thinking that her alcohol level would go down i'm sure...tactic doesnt work it takes hours to matabalize alcohol. I had to call and wake up the lawyer like 3 times cause she kept saying she didnt understand......lord almighty I lost my patience with that. She finally blew into the thing....wasted over double the legal limit for an adult and 8 times the legal limit for a minor.....wuuufta.

Then she started crying and crying and crying...trauma drama for sure. Spent about 4 hours between the processing and all the paperwork for the report....DUI is equal to failing to transfer a vehicle license title within 45 days which takes about 2 minutes to write the report...gotta love DUI defense attorneys that have made it that way....sigh.

All and all great night...3 arrests. Not bad at all...I'll take it!

plodding on!

Almost had to shoot.

Greetings faithful followers. Hey sorry its been a while since my last post. Where to begin with the excuses. Well first off my charger went out on my little laptop and I usually sit on the couch and type these up so thats been out of commission and lets face it after 12 hours walking 10 more feet downstairs to the other computer is waaaay to much work LOL. I got behind a little bit and then its like oh geez where do I start and finally sometimes Im just lazy sorry...its true sorry bout that. I was thinking the other day about the blog etc and I remember when I used to dispatch it was kinda the same thing. I would always come home with crazy stories but eventually they all just kind of blended together and it just melts into .....how was work??...well it was kinda busy ....or it was kinda slow. Eventually after a while the excitement kind of wares off and its like any other job I suppose.

Ok so a few weeks ago it was pretty crazy. I had one week inparticular that really took the cake.

Disturbance call: went to a call.....2 buddies were hanging out. ONe is just totally lunatic. They had both been drinking watching movies and lunatic boy decides to start breaking the other dudes dvd's for no apparent reason. Buddy confronts him about it and the guy just says "you and me right now" and ends up fighting this guy. What a wierdo. Well he is even wierder when we are talking to him asking what year it is etc etc. All is dandy until he gets in my patrol car. He starts bashing his head against my partition...I tell him to stop and he says "you think i'm playing games....fine!" then he rolls over onto his back and starts mule kicking my side window with both legs. I mean hard! His whole body is rearing up and he is lifting his knees up to his chin and thrusting both legs into the window. Thankfully our department is smart and we have reenforced steel bars that go across the window! I called for the welcoming committee at the jail and it was great. 4 big guards came out as I pulled into the sally port.

This one jail guard is awesome totally killed him with kindness and was like "hey man just want to give you a chance to cooperate" well the dude didnt like him either so they totally tricked him. After a screaming fit yelling something about how he is God or something the guard opens up the door with a big smile and was like "right this way Mr John Doe sir" so as the dude is scooting out that way no doubt about to start kicking at him 2 other big ass guards open the other door and swoop him out the other side totally confusing him! I thought that was awesome! As I'm doing my paperwork you could hear the guy in his rubber room screaming "F U C K ....Y O U ". Just like a 5 year old who happened to be now 40 years old . Gotta love it.


Man with a gun: I got dispatched to a disturbance call. A neighbor heard some screaming and overheard someone say something about "I'm gonna go get my gat". Well me and the ol sarge start walking up and we can hear some commotion behind the house.....so we start creaping around the house all ninja like and we round the corner. I SEE A DUDE STANDING WITH HIS BACK TOWARD ME AND HE HAS A HANDGUN POINTED UP AT THE SECOND STORY WINDOW OF THE HOUSE. HOLY SHIT BATMAN!

It was amazing to see all your training take over. "STOP POLICE DROP THE GUN" the whole 9 yards. He starts to turn around and then bolts off behind a blind corner where its dark and we couldnt see him. There had been 2 or 3 other people around him and they all ran inside the house as soon as they saw it was the police. So we started to chase him and then I just kept thinking ambush ambush ambush. I called out to just hold up and wait for the dog. It took every inch of me not to give in to the predator prey instinct and just chase him down but I think that in hinesight it was a very very wise decision. I'm really glad we decided to go that route. But now its crazy we got people in the house....there could be more weapons/suspects inside so you dont want to turn your back to the house and also you have crazy guy hiding somewhere with the gun...heart pounding! Juices flowing! Scary stuff for sure.

So the entire world shows up. Talk about cavalry...3 cities of cops dumped to get over to us. K9 track is on....they track his scent over about a block through back yards and find his shirt. ONly convicts know this trick...he is smart to ditch his outter shirt..makes sense right...say a bank robber robs a bank wearing a bright yellow shirt and thats the description that gets broadcasted well the first thing i would do is ditch that shirt so that my polkadot blue undershirt is the one i'm wearing. ONe of the containment units finds him back near the original scene...he doubled back. Of course he denies knowing anything that is going on and claims he was just walking down the street...despite being sweaty, having torn pants, mud on his shirt and grass in his hair (seems like someone who was running away from a police dog)....here is the crappy part...NO GUN. The dog handler tries doing an evidence track to try and find the gun but we never find it.

The crappy crappy part is....I never really saw his face. Even though you are 99 percent sure that is the guy and the dog tracks him all the way to the patrol car giving a positive indication that is the guy that ran (i'll spare all the science details here about court lore and dog tracking) we got nothin. Unfortunately in this job you have to think like a defense attorney half the time and not a cop.....so HE WALKS.

The rest is kind of a long story but I was so pissed we didnt charge him with anything after all that. How crappy is that...all I could think of is that hidden gun somewhere where a kid could find it and kill themselves.

So here is the cool part...fortunately dayshift came on and one of my partners knows this dudes parole officer. OH yeah the guy has done hard time for armed robbery in the past. One of his conditions was that he was not to associate with a certain somebuddy and that somebuddy happened to be in his house that night........thanks to that we were able to contact his parole officer and his parole officer showed up about a week later to his house on a surprise visit....they found 2 stolen guns and a bunch of drugs in his house!!!! WOOOOOOOT he is gonna go to the pokey for a long long time. That made me feel sooooo good.

Good times ya'll!!!! Thats all for now guys.

Some Compassion

I was running lidar (like radar but it uses a laser) and this gal came flying down the road ...60mph in a 35mph zone and weaving in and out of traffic. I pull the gal over and she doesnt stop right away....oh man its on I'm thinking here we go pursuit. So I she finally stops and I can tell immediately that she is probably too drunk to be driving. Long story short she blew into my portable breath tester after some field sobriety tests and she was almost double the legal limit. She was crying the entire time she was doing them and I asked her why she was so upset. She told me that her husband had just told her he was leaving her for another woman.....now usually when the tears come they are fake but these were real...as they taught me in the academy.......

When it comes to tears to find out whether they are faking or not the motto goes "No snot believe not" and I tell you that is so true...anytime anyone is really crying for real they will always have real snotcicles...I have used that to my advantage many times....I called her husband and politically corectly asked what the situation was and he cooberated her story so I knew she was telling the truth.

Now I have never done this for anyone before but I don't know man...I just couldnt see hammering this girl after the news she had received and the way I look at it...the legislative intent is to get drunk drivers off the road.....so wow did she dodge a bullet...an average dui costs around 5 to 6000 dollars in fees and lawyer charges etc...not to mention going to court and having this stuff on your record. So I gave her a break...a real big one.

I'm just glad I got her off the road cause she could have killed someone......I did give the dad speach to her and it really hit home when I talked about how she could have made her 7 and 8 year old kids orphans that night.....didn't know I could make someone cry so hard......those are the kind of people I don't mind giving breaks to if it is deserved and with me its a one time shot....if I ever catch her on the road again she is toast....I hope I made the right decision.