Went to coffee with the guys. Got one sip in before getting called to back a neighboring city on a domestic call. Trouble finding the place...its hard when its not your city and it was tucked down this long driveway. In a nutshell....dad comes home from the graveyard shift, finds mom and 23 year old daughter had been up drinking all night. He's had enough..they started arguing and then mom got pretty confrontational with him so he called the cops. Daughter and mother are nowhere to be found when we get there....find the mom hiding in a bathroom, she was blitzed drunk and pretty hard to deal with...major drama. Daughter had taken off in and went running through the neighborhood...tried looking for her with negative results.
Traffic stop....had a few stops today but didn't have much time to really dig and find anything good...ran some radar. Got a gal going 52 in a 35 pulled behind her and turned on my lights.....she drives about 4 blocks and doesn't pull over...I hit the 150 decibel siren 2 feet from her bumper....still doesn't pull over.......finally looks up and stops right in the center lane. hello!!! did you take the driver's exam?! she finally figured it out and pulled to the right. It was a very old asian lady with a huge language barrier...she just kept smiling at me and saying yes repeatedly. Her younger adult daughter who spoke a little better english attempted to translate. I told her some basic concepts on what should be done with you have a large police car with bright flashing lights right behind you and when you see me frantically pointing at you and gesturing to pull over in the rearview mirror.....that might be a clue as to what to do. She pondered it for a moment and then told me that she thinks it is an old person thing....that when the police are behind you, you assume that they want to just go the same way they're going. Anyway....its one of those occasions as Lewis Black so nicely puts it.......its when you hear something and your left brain says to your right brain "its dark in hear and we may die". I gave her a warning...sometimes in the grand scheme of things its just easier that way and I don't like to ticket old people...they've suffered enough.
Reports.....lots of reports today I wish I could remember them all but I'll highlight a few.
Burglary......old guy calls, he's missing his stereo tuner, speakers, cd player etc from his living room...no forced entry.. daughter had apparently taken the stuff or so he expected...she's had a long history of drug abuse and stealing from dad. She is homeless, dad let her stay there for a little bit...he gets tired of her lies and drug use and gives her the boot and repays him by jacking his stuff.......pretty mean huh? Gets better...the guy is a world war 2 vet and his wife of like 50 years had just passed away 2 weeks prior and he just got stuck with a 135,000 dollar medical bill....gee thanks. I can't even imagine the pain and heartache that guy must be enduring and to have some low life drug addict piece of @#$%^% daughter treat you like that. And to boot....he couldn't write me a statement on account of him recently starting to go blind. Poor guy man. Sux. The guy had to buy this hard to read metal safe to stash his medicine in so this daughter would stop taking his meds...unreal man! So anyway I took off after getting everything I need and started typing out the report in my car....he called later after realizing that she jacked his beloved wife's jewelry as well. What a nice daughter huh? argh!
Up on blocks: Go to about the 4th car prowl at the same location the past 4 or 5 nights....guys keep hi-centering cars on blocks and stealing all the wheels...kinda funny to see a car on full tilt just high-centered on a piece of concrete with no wheels underneath.
Craigslist scam.....lady finds home for rent on craigslist, emails the renter...gets a response back from some legit looking site (looked real she showed it to me), looked like a house rental management company that represented the property......so she clicks on the link and starts filling out the "rental application". This part she showed me and I can't believe she was dumb enough to fill this out....it was asking for her full name, social security number, date of birth, what car she drives...the license plate number on her car , credit card information etc etc....she put it all in there and submitted it...luckily she paid with pay-pal for 24 bucks.......after paying (why would you not wait to pay before getting suspicious) checks craigslist again and finds another add for the same home.....this one has a phone number...calls the real owner of the house and he says that he doesn't use that company or have anything to do with it and had received 2 or 3 complaints about the same thing from other people......bummer.
Man with a Gun: Get a man with a gun call. " man walking down the street with a rifle in his hands". Go flyin over there and check the whole area and cant find him.....the caller says that he walked into a house and described where the house was at. So we park our cars a long ways away "you have a Ar-15?....nope its at the station.....you have an Ar-15? nope...nope........nope...great all we have is our stupid pistols....bringing a pistol to a rifle fight is like bringing a water gun to a knife fight. We at least had our shotguns...so one guy grabbed one....I asked if we had a shield and sure enough we had one....pretty sweet. Downside is new guy gets to lug it and conduct operation "get behind the expendable rookie meat shield". The house was horrible...all kinds of places the guy could just pick us off from as we approached the house.....so we stack up behind me...I have to carry the shield which means both my hands are tied up and if he starts shooting I'm hosed...especially since it was our lower level shield rated only for pistol rounds...better than nothing I suppose. So we choose the best of all crappy options as far as approach........then its like the three stooges trying to coordinate walking and stopping and looking and talking to one another "moving....copy moving...yeah moving...rodger that moving" "window on the right...window on the right...copy window on the right.....stopping, stopping ok, yeah copy stopping....moving again..ok moving...turning right, turning right, copy turning right". This is all done at .07 miles an hour. Get to the front of the house......I got a shield in both hands and the other guys have guns drawn.....who knocks? Tried calling inside the house by phone with no luck.....so picture this...3 heavily armed swat looking guys and the lead guy has a giant ballistic shield with bright lights on it and POLICE in bold lettering standing at the front door " knock knock knock" guy answers the door to talk to a big shield "hi police here....can I interest you in donating to the police department fallen officers guild fundraiser bowling night.....ok it didn't go like that but I felt just as ridiculous.....we did the whole come out with your hands up thing get on the ground etc etc etc.
...............it was a BB-gun.
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