Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Lame
Very slow last night...felt like I was driving in circles. Couple of tickets. Had a buddy ride-a-long...that was nice. Burglary report..laptop stolen...fight call...gone on arival....thats all folks
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Seriously? Seriously?
OK really slow night last night...it was nice....all nice except a verbal domestic I got 30 minutes before going home....un-real especially on my friday...so lame. There were some "threats to kill" as well which significantly increases the paperwork load on the case......
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
tickets tickets tickets
Sarge wanted some more tickets as our crew has been pretty low lately so I went out and got 12 tonight. Felt pretty good actually...I'm usually not a big ticket guy but you know what....I have to go out and pay my fees etc, I have to keep it under 100 mph etc I have to pay for my insurance....I think other people should as well.
Anyway that was about it.....oh the craZY lady...gal called because she heard loud noises and people talking about cutting off feet. She was really crazy. She also was convinced her neighbor was chewing off her paint job on her car with their teeth....not joking she really thought that....I told her the coast guard investigation team would get right on it. Sometimes I cant help myself.
Anyway that was about it.....oh the craZY lady...gal called because she heard loud noises and people talking about cutting off feet. She was really crazy. She also was convinced her neighbor was chewing off her paint job on her car with their teeth....not joking she really thought that....I told her the coast guard investigation team would get right on it. Sometimes I cant help myself.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
2 dv's if you please
2 girls fighting it out by the pool...one chased another one and punched her in the face...she got to go to jail.
The other one involved a boyfriend/girlfriend......she lit up a smoke in the house infuriating him so much he strangles her from behind and puts her in an armbar cutting off her airway for 30 seconds....luckily no one had to go to the hospital but he got a nice felony charge and a trip to jail...
Other than that it was pretty slow...I had a reserve with me all night...I pretty much let him run the show I think he thought it was cool to not have to ride shotgun...I let him pretty much do everything...got a suspended driver the guy saw us and ducked off into an abandoned parking lot at 2am....kind of a tell tale sign somethng is wrong with the dude...luckily we had probable cause to stop the car anyway and well sure enough his license was suspended...
pretty slow night aside from that.
The other one involved a boyfriend/girlfriend......she lit up a smoke in the house infuriating him so much he strangles her from behind and puts her in an armbar cutting off her airway for 30 seconds....luckily no one had to go to the hospital but he got a nice felony charge and a trip to jail...
Other than that it was pretty slow...I had a reserve with me all night...I pretty much let him run the show I think he thought it was cool to not have to ride shotgun...I let him pretty much do everything...got a suspended driver the guy saw us and ducked off into an abandoned parking lot at 2am....kind of a tell tale sign somethng is wrong with the dude...luckily we had probable cause to stop the car anyway and well sure enough his license was suspended...
pretty slow night aside from that.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Half shift
Got the night off for a kelly day...basically its a free day off once a month...pretty nice actually especially considering my work week is only three days anyway.
Unfortunately there was some kind of a scheduling error so they called me in to work half a shift...but the nice thing is that its considered ot for me so I got paid at time and a half vs just regular rate and I normally would have to be there anyway.
Burglary.....exhusband gets a job today and goes over to his ex's house...he wants to reconcile now that he has income and he wants to keep the family together....he doesnt live there anymore and ends hopping through a window just to "talk to her" cause she wont answer his phone calls.....bad news for him is that is considered burglary.
The only other thing we had was a call of a slumper....we call it that when someone is slumped over the wheel of their car either asleep at the wheel of passed out from bein drunk etc. ......we roll up there and its pretty comical actually. This dude has his door halfway open and he is slumped halfway out of the car and half on his seat with the engine running....he was wasted. Apparently his buddies dropped him off from a party to where his car was parked....he should have just kept his keys in his pockets and just went to sleep....nope he had to start his car and leave it running....he gets a dui...its actually considered "physical control" but its the same thing.....poor bastard....found some weed in the car as well....what a dumb ass.
Unfortunately there was some kind of a scheduling error so they called me in to work half a shift...but the nice thing is that its considered ot for me so I got paid at time and a half vs just regular rate and I normally would have to be there anyway.
Burglary.....exhusband gets a job today and goes over to his ex's house...he wants to reconcile now that he has income and he wants to keep the family together....he doesnt live there anymore and ends hopping through a window just to "talk to her" cause she wont answer his phone calls.....bad news for him is that is considered burglary.
The only other thing we had was a call of a slumper....we call it that when someone is slumped over the wheel of their car either asleep at the wheel of passed out from bein drunk etc. ......we roll up there and its pretty comical actually. This dude has his door halfway open and he is slumped halfway out of the car and half on his seat with the engine running....he was wasted. Apparently his buddies dropped him off from a party to where his car was parked....he should have just kept his keys in his pockets and just went to sleep....nope he had to start his car and leave it running....he gets a dui...its actually considered "physical control" but its the same thing.....poor bastard....found some weed in the car as well....what a dumb ass.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
What the $%^&?! Hold your fire tex
Ok so pretty crazy night at work. Different to say the least. I got there early so one of the guys could go home a lil early. Arent I nice?! Anyway the night started right out of the gate.....I get toned out (a 3 beep tone sent out over the airway for high risk/dangerous situations) for a shots fired call. A gal reported her neighbor fireing a scoped rifle from his porch and apparently he had threatened this lady before........lets roll man! Got a nice code run (lights and sirens) across the entire city.
Get on scene....got to grab my trusty M-16...always a good day when you get to do that.....you get some interesting looks form passerby looky lou's to say the least.....they all get the same expression on their face....its a cross between realizing santa claus is not real and crapping your pants...
So the house is just tactically a nightmare....its like playing king of the castle when you are a kid....the house is up a hill which gives our problem dude a huge advantage if he is shooting a scoped rifle. Your vest isnt gonna do crap against much more than pistol munitions....there was not much cover and the bad dude has a visual advantage....its always to better to be on high ground. Tactically it wasnt great...we were stacked up (in formation close to one another prior to moving together)and there was alot of "whats the plan" ok what are we doing talk going on...not good conversation to have when people are trying to kill you.
THANK GOD and I'll say it again THANK GOD my sergeant told me to move to another street so we could even out our assault teams....so I'm driving to my new assigned spot for this fiasco....there is some radio chatter and over the air in the background I hear a very very very loud/crisp "...C R A C K" . I knew exactly what the sound was from several years of dispatching...yeah gunshot...no car backfiring etc WHAT THE FRICK! You start running through every scenario in your head...what happened is everyone ok etc etc etc.......sarge got on the radio and advised of an "A.D" (accidental discharge) by another city's assisting officer.
Wow heart still raced for about an hour after that.. . . .
more later...gettin tired guys.
Get on scene....got to grab my trusty M-16...always a good day when you get to do that.....you get some interesting looks form passerby looky lou's to say the least.....they all get the same expression on their face....its a cross between realizing santa claus is not real and crapping your pants...
So the house is just tactically a nightmare....its like playing king of the castle when you are a kid....the house is up a hill which gives our problem dude a huge advantage if he is shooting a scoped rifle. Your vest isnt gonna do crap against much more than pistol munitions....there was not much cover and the bad dude has a visual advantage....its always to better to be on high ground. Tactically it wasnt great...we were stacked up (in formation close to one another prior to moving together)and there was alot of "whats the plan" ok what are we doing talk going on...not good conversation to have when people are trying to kill you.
THANK GOD and I'll say it again THANK GOD my sergeant told me to move to another street so we could even out our assault teams....so I'm driving to my new assigned spot for this fiasco....there is some radio chatter and over the air in the background I hear a very very very loud/crisp "...C R A C K" . I knew exactly what the sound was from several years of dispatching...yeah gunshot...no car backfiring etc WHAT THE FRICK! You start running through every scenario in your head...what happened is everyone ok etc etc etc.......sarge got on the radio and advised of an "A.D" (accidental discharge) by another city's assisting officer.
Wow heart still raced for about an hour after that.. . . .
more later...gettin tired guys.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Stolen Car...stolen coats
It was a really busy night last night....I took a ton of reports and it just seemed like I couldnt get out of the station. It started out pretty exciting. A neighboring city got in a pursuit. The suspects had shoplifted a bunch of merchandice from a store and took off. ONe of my partners found the car and started following it....we went way out of our jurisdiction but ended up getting the car full of peeps out at gunpoint.
Well turns out the car they were in was an unreported stolen car and a couple of the occupants had a whole bunch of felony warrants. Ended up being a nice grab...props to my partner for finding the car and anticipating where the car was gonna be.
Mental guy: Went to another call....guy called 9-1-1 saying he's bipolar and wanted to kill everyone in site. Got there and the guy was totally compliant and calm....he said that he just realized that his medication levels were low and he knows bad things happen with this occurs and needed to get to the hospital....worked out great. I wish all mentals were this nice and compliant and realized they need help....makes our job easier.
Face fall guy: drunk hobo in the street....drunk fall down go boom.....helped him into the ambulance
Collision....hit and run. Girls car got nailed and the bastard took off. No witnesses...simple report for her insurance.
DV---simple verbal argument. I think the guy had enough of his girlfriend nagging him about alot of stuff......no threats, no assaults occured....still have to write a report on it. They were already seperated and she was on her way home by the time we got there. DV's get old quick. "welcome and thank you for calling 9-1-1 if you would like the police to instantly solve and de-escalate a social situation that took years to deteriorate....press 2".
Pretty busy with just some other mundane stuff and report writing and other run of the mill calls all night. Not much time for any proactive work.
good times
Well turns out the car they were in was an unreported stolen car and a couple of the occupants had a whole bunch of felony warrants. Ended up being a nice grab...props to my partner for finding the car and anticipating where the car was gonna be.
Mental guy: Went to another call....guy called 9-1-1 saying he's bipolar and wanted to kill everyone in site. Got there and the guy was totally compliant and calm....he said that he just realized that his medication levels were low and he knows bad things happen with this occurs and needed to get to the hospital....worked out great. I wish all mentals were this nice and compliant and realized they need help....makes our job easier.
Face fall guy: drunk hobo in the street....drunk fall down go boom.....helped him into the ambulance
Collision....hit and run. Girls car got nailed and the bastard took off. No witnesses...simple report for her insurance.
DV---simple verbal argument. I think the guy had enough of his girlfriend nagging him about alot of stuff......no threats, no assaults occured....still have to write a report on it. They were already seperated and she was on her way home by the time we got there. DV's get old quick. "welcome and thank you for calling 9-1-1 if you would like the police to instantly solve and de-escalate a social situation that took years to deteriorate....press 2".
Pretty busy with just some other mundane stuff and report writing and other run of the mill calls all night. Not much time for any proactive work.
good times
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Agency Assist
So a pretty slow week. REally not a whole lot went on. The big highlight of the week happened the night before last so I'll share a little bit of it with ya.
A neighboring city that borders us got a hangup call from a grocery store. Basically thats where someone dials 9-1-1 and then hangs up. Usually its nothing like kids playing with the phone or a misdial etc. I was close by so I told dispatch that I would be enroute to assist. Right before arrival dispatch says they got back on the line and apparently there was some kind of abduction....
I pull up front to the store and there is a couple of smashed watermelons on the ground, a women's shoe and a cell phone. Wow...looks like its some real police shit going on. Ok!
So apparently what happened was this... 3 or 4 guys come into the store, they mill around the front area and ask the clerk if they can stand there to "wait for some friends". They go back to the bathroom, get some sort of text or signal on there cell phone and go back up front....they then start to "warm up"...they start stretching out and pace back and forth....a couple of girls walk up to the front entrance outside and these guys attack them...they start wrestling them to the ground. Similtaneously a big truck pulls up and they force the girls inside and then speed off.
Sounds pretty crazy I know...so we start taping off the crime scene and photgraphing it...collect evidence etc. An hour or two goes by...I did an area check for the car...a big area check. I went all the way into the next county looking for this thing...I checked every hotel parking lot I could find.
Well about 2 hours goes by and one of the girls shows up at her hotel which happens to be right near the grocery store. They posted me on the hotel room and walah the other girl shows up scared and shaken about an hour after that. The primary suspect is then found a few blocks away in a different car.
I must tell you all that random crime is a pretty rare thing...usually things are all related somehow. OUr first indicator was that one of the girls boyfriends was there during the "kidnapping" and I dont know bout ya'll but if someone was trying to take my lady you would find me shooting and then jumping on the car like TJ Hooker as it sped off. This guy pretty much does nothing while it happens...while is girlfriend is abducted he decides to intervene by throwing a watermelon at the car. Then he proceeds to really not show any signs of emotional distress or concern at all and is very calm talking to us.....hmmmm suspicious. The hotel they were staying at is a hotbed for drug activity....and the girls??....have tons of local arrest and suspect records for burglary theft and drugs......all this is now kind of adding up........so its suspicious at best if not probably entirely orchestrated by the boyfriend who probably needs money etc........
I know that one guy was actually booked for felony kidnapping and unlawfull imprisonment but as for the motives etc I dont know as we didnt investigate it (it was the other city's investigation)...I just acted as an assistant really.
None the less it was a fun call and interesting for sure.
Thats it for now ya'll....till next time.
A neighboring city that borders us got a hangup call from a grocery store. Basically thats where someone dials 9-1-1 and then hangs up. Usually its nothing like kids playing with the phone or a misdial etc. I was close by so I told dispatch that I would be enroute to assist. Right before arrival dispatch says they got back on the line and apparently there was some kind of abduction....
I pull up front to the store and there is a couple of smashed watermelons on the ground, a women's shoe and a cell phone. Wow...looks like its some real police shit going on. Ok!
So apparently what happened was this... 3 or 4 guys come into the store, they mill around the front area and ask the clerk if they can stand there to "wait for some friends". They go back to the bathroom, get some sort of text or signal on there cell phone and go back up front....they then start to "warm up"...they start stretching out and pace back and forth....a couple of girls walk up to the front entrance outside and these guys attack them...they start wrestling them to the ground. Similtaneously a big truck pulls up and they force the girls inside and then speed off.
Sounds pretty crazy I know...so we start taping off the crime scene and photgraphing it...collect evidence etc. An hour or two goes by...I did an area check for the car...a big area check. I went all the way into the next county looking for this thing...I checked every hotel parking lot I could find.
Well about 2 hours goes by and one of the girls shows up at her hotel which happens to be right near the grocery store. They posted me on the hotel room and walah the other girl shows up scared and shaken about an hour after that. The primary suspect is then found a few blocks away in a different car.
I must tell you all that random crime is a pretty rare thing...usually things are all related somehow. OUr first indicator was that one of the girls boyfriends was there during the "kidnapping" and I dont know bout ya'll but if someone was trying to take my lady you would find me shooting and then jumping on the car like TJ Hooker as it sped off. This guy pretty much does nothing while it happens...while is girlfriend is abducted he decides to intervene by throwing a watermelon at the car. Then he proceeds to really not show any signs of emotional distress or concern at all and is very calm talking to us.....hmmmm suspicious. The hotel they were staying at is a hotbed for drug activity....and the girls??....have tons of local arrest and suspect records for burglary theft and drugs......all this is now kind of adding up........so its suspicious at best if not probably entirely orchestrated by the boyfriend who probably needs money etc........
I know that one guy was actually booked for felony kidnapping and unlawfull imprisonment but as for the motives etc I dont know as we didnt investigate it (it was the other city's investigation)...I just acted as an assistant really.
None the less it was a fun call and interesting for sure.
Thats it for now ya'll....till next time.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Granny throws a tantrum!
Had another rider again today. It was another explorer. Nice kid....big ambitions etc...ah to be young again. Actually its kind of cool. The kid is smart, polite, and respectful.....dont see that a whole lot these days. I had to stop myself cause I found myself talking about housing markets and other really boring things inbetween calls forgetting that a 19 year old kid probably isnt real stoked to talk about boring stuff like that.
Had several calls and traffic stops...pretty slow really. I spent most of the night finishing up my reports from the previous 2 shifts.
The play of the week goes to granny. Get a call about a 70 year old gal that had hurt herself by falling down in the bathroom. Fire Department goes out for an aid call on this one. Well she saw em coming up the driveway and locks the door. Now normally if someone doesnt want to be seen by someone that is perfectly fine but a neighbor was worried bout her cause her face was all cut up. Unfortunately we have a duty to check on people's welfare.
We were able to gain access to the residence via an open back slider door. Wow she did not like this..she was instantly combative. Storming around the house thinking that nazi's have just crossed the border into poland or something. Started hitting us and runnin all over the house. Now normaly if this was a 20 year old guy you just ask them to do what you want...then tell them to do what you need and if that doesnt work you make them.....ask tell make. We tried for probably a good 10 minutes to politely just say hey the aid guys are gonna check you out and if you dont want to go to the hospital thats fine....well she was having nothing of it. She wouldnt even just sit down for a minute to tell us anything about what had happened......
well she started going into the kitchen and whats in the kitchen..? Food....yes. Knives and stabbing weapons...? Yep can count on that one. Despite being 70 granny with a knife could do some damage. So long story short we end up "assisting her" to a chair and she continues to flaim about "what are you doing you cant come into my house get out now....my husband is a war vet...i'm from england but i'm an american citizen and i have rights.....i know a lawyer...etc etc on and on......how dare you etc etc blah blah blah. She was drunk off her ass to boot. Just really a pleasant ol lady. Well that was about as far as we got as far as the aid guys being able to treat her......she needed to go to the hospital end of story. We didn't know if she had a concusion, internal bleeding etc...she had a huge amount of blood on her face when we got there and well...she at least could have explained how that happened and we probably would have gotten out of here.
Ok trip out to the squad car...this should be adventure and fun. We had her handcuffed at this point and despite telling her 1000 times that she WAS NOT under arrest...she thought she was going to the electric chair or something. Anyway she starts squirming and yelling more. Its funny how age is cyclical because she was acting like a 5 year old little girl throwing a tantrum....no joke...a tantrum like she didn't want to go to the first day of school. Go to go put her in the back seat and she kicks out her legs and puts her feat in the door jam. The she starts pushing back on us....kicking at us etc. Now I tell you....we have a few choice techniques for when this happens to say a 18 year old dude. You pretty much treat them like a rag-doll.....but this was a frail old woman so you have to dial it back to about 1/4 impulse speed.
You can imagine the great captivating conversation I had with her all the way to the hospital. I was very glad to do my paperwork and be done with that ol broad. I hate it when you do everything you can to be as polite and understanding as possible and thats what you get back.....some people just cant be reasoned with.
sigh....weekend time......till next time......stay tuned for another episode of the rookie diaries.
Had several calls and traffic stops...pretty slow really. I spent most of the night finishing up my reports from the previous 2 shifts.
The play of the week goes to granny. Get a call about a 70 year old gal that had hurt herself by falling down in the bathroom. Fire Department goes out for an aid call on this one. Well she saw em coming up the driveway and locks the door. Now normally if someone doesnt want to be seen by someone that is perfectly fine but a neighbor was worried bout her cause her face was all cut up. Unfortunately we have a duty to check on people's welfare.
We were able to gain access to the residence via an open back slider door. Wow she did not like this..she was instantly combative. Storming around the house thinking that nazi's have just crossed the border into poland or something. Started hitting us and runnin all over the house. Now normaly if this was a 20 year old guy you just ask them to do what you want...then tell them to do what you need and if that doesnt work you make them.....ask tell make. We tried for probably a good 10 minutes to politely just say hey the aid guys are gonna check you out and if you dont want to go to the hospital thats fine....well she was having nothing of it. She wouldnt even just sit down for a minute to tell us anything about what had happened......
well she started going into the kitchen and whats in the kitchen..? Food....yes. Knives and stabbing weapons...? Yep can count on that one. Despite being 70 granny with a knife could do some damage. So long story short we end up "assisting her" to a chair and she continues to flaim about "what are you doing you cant come into my house get out now....my husband is a war vet...i'm from england but i'm an american citizen and i have rights.....i know a lawyer...etc etc on and on......how dare you etc etc blah blah blah. She was drunk off her ass to boot. Just really a pleasant ol lady. Well that was about as far as we got as far as the aid guys being able to treat her......she needed to go to the hospital end of story. We didn't know if she had a concusion, internal bleeding etc...she had a huge amount of blood on her face when we got there and well...she at least could have explained how that happened and we probably would have gotten out of here.
Ok trip out to the squad car...this should be adventure and fun. We had her handcuffed at this point and despite telling her 1000 times that she WAS NOT under arrest...she thought she was going to the electric chair or something. Anyway she starts squirming and yelling more. Its funny how age is cyclical because she was acting like a 5 year old little girl throwing a tantrum....no joke...a tantrum like she didn't want to go to the first day of school. Go to go put her in the back seat and she kicks out her legs and puts her feat in the door jam. The she starts pushing back on us....kicking at us etc. Now I tell you....we have a few choice techniques for when this happens to say a 18 year old dude. You pretty much treat them like a rag-doll.....but this was a frail old woman so you have to dial it back to about 1/4 impulse speed.
You can imagine the great captivating conversation I had with her all the way to the hospital. I was very glad to do my paperwork and be done with that ol broad. I hate it when you do everything you can to be as polite and understanding as possible and thats what you get back.....some people just cant be reasoned with.
sigh....weekend time......till next time......stay tuned for another episode of the rookie diaries.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Hi I'm a junkie...I'm driving the same roads your kids walk.
Had a rider today. It was one of the explorers. Its kind of like a boyscout program where kids can ride along and do mock scenes etc. Felt kinda good being on the instructor side of things...I found myself talkin to him like some kind of elite jedi warrior....enter cartman...yep you just gotta keep living day by day. lol. Its kind of funny cause I'm still really new and dont feel like I know what I'm doing sometimes.
A funny call. I was just driving around and I got flagged down by this passerby and he seemed distraught..I asked him whats wrong and he said that he had lost his dog...right next to him in the passenger seat sat his daughter who had an expression on her face like lassie just sat on a grenade. She was super sad. Her puppy was missing...bummer man. Well as I'm talking to him I get dispatched to a found dog call.....what are the odds of that timing...could you imagine if it was this guys dog...good oportunity to make some magic happen...I told him I'd find his dog and I think I know where it is....I went to the address of the found dog which was just down the road and sure enuff captain snuggles was A-o.k. Man you would have thought I was superman with better psychic powers. That kid lit up like a xmas tree. I tell ya you can do cpr on someone and bring em back to life and not get a thank you like that one. Very cool. I made sure to tell the guy that found him that he was the true hero. good times.
DV...the heat seems to bring out the worst in people....house full of people...takes 10 minutes of playing who's on first to determine how people are related to everyone else....*enter spaceballs line.....I'm your first cousin's sister's nephew's father's first roomate..** Long story short....boyfriend vs girlfriend got in an argument...side note..cutest little baby kid they had...could be on gerber commercials or welche's grape juice or something...absolutely adorable...anyway boyfriend vs girlfriend fight over money as is the case with most dv's. She get up in his face and he grabs her by the neck and slams her on the ground. Most of these guys are real a-holes but I actually felt a little bad for the guy...he was pretty ashamed of his behavior and legitimately felt bad...I usually never believe guys that do this but I did in this case....he admitted that it went to far and he shouldnt have done that.....anyway...he got a nice pair of bracelets and a tour of the city with a free stay at the grey bar motel.
The junkie....pulled a car over at 2am for driving without it's headlights on. I light him up and the guy blines it pulling over to the right slamming into a curb a couple times. He then proceeds to cross 2 lanes of traffic and pull over into a driveway on the complete opposite side of the road. Hmmm there's a couple indicators to write down for the report later. I contact him and the guy just looks stoned. As objective as you have to be in this job and you certainly can't make assumptions but its much like defining obscene :
In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, by saying, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "[1]
Its kind of the same with druggies...after a while you can just about pick them out of lineup. This guy's face was ghost white...his eyes were a bit depressed, wattery, bloodshot in some cases.....they are always sweaty and greeezy lookin. I didn't smell any alcohol on him so I called our super DUI king. He came out and did all the field sobriety tests and honestly he did pretty damn good. The only thing he didn't do well at is there is a rhomberg test (no idea how to spell rhomberg) where you close your eyes, tilt your head back and estimate the passage of 30 seconds in your head....you then open your eyes and say stop when you feel 30 seconds have gone by. Well he went almost a full minute.
My partner also took his pulse which is not standard practice but drug recognition experts do it. His pulse was close to 200 beats per minute...now being nervous is normal but that is a bit excessive. Something just wasnt right with this guy. He said he hadnt had a sip of alcohol and absolutely no drugs.....hmmm remember hitting the curb with your car pal? My partner leaned over to me at one point and whispered this guy is hammered. I trust my partner he gets over 100 dui's per year and that is alot. He said its up to you if you want to arrest this guy but he shouldnt drive. I thought it over in my head.....man I didnt have much driving on him...no smell of alcohol...no odor of weed...did pretty good on his sobriety tests....i just dont know..
i almost let him go but I remember in the academy they talked alot about legislative intent when laws are drafted...specifically they talked alot about DV laws and DUI laws. They teach you so ways and reasons why you should not arrest someone due to peoples "rights". Thats why I laugh when people say the cops can just arrest anyone for any reason...so not true. It actually takes alot of wrong behavior to get arrested contrary to popular belief. DV laws (domestic violence) were designed to primarily seperate the two involved parties at least for the night. This cools the situation down. Gone are the days when you tell the couple "well we better not have to come back out here tonight or one of you is going to jail" too many people ended up shot after the police left that basically any time an assault actually occurs...someone is going to the clink.
With the DUI legislative intent its basically all about getting people off the road..so much so that even if you arrest someone you cannot be held liable for a false arrest lawsuit down the road....kind of a nice protection...one of the few we have left. So thinking of that I was like ya know what.....lets just get this guy off the road..draw his blood and if it comes back clean fine and if it comes back with something I'll feel better about myself.
So I put the bracelets on him...I asked him "hey man am i gonna find anything in the car that's illegal "uh i dont think so" bam...that might as well be like saying yes.
Now for a suspected junkie this dude has a clean car. Usually when you search these people's cars they all have a similar smell...it smells like water sogged Camel Lights, bong watter, and geek sweat rolled into one. I dont know why but they all have that dirty laundry been sitting in the hamper under a heat lamp smell. This guys car was first of all nice and newer and it was clean. So I'm searchin and searchin and I get to the passenger side and I find a rolled up bath towel....I unroll it and jackpot I find his junk kit. Its a zippered pencil pouch style bag...within I find your typical heroin user supply kit.....2 small bottles of rubbing alcohol, tiny cotton balls (used as a filter when they suck up the juice prior to vain injection), alcohol swabs (you know to be clean about things) for the skin, 4 hyperdermic needles, surgical tubing (used to turnicut your arm to get vain expansion) and 2 nasty thimble-like things that have burnt tar residue in them....smelled like tar heroin...it smells like rotten butt sweat....
yeah i dont know what rotten butt sweat smells like but that is the first thing that pops into my head.....yep rotten butt sweat--its heroin bookem danno". Man what a liar that pisses me off so bad...of course he denied that it was his.....oh thats right..you held on to this stuff foryour buddy....your buddy oops left his stuff in his car....what a jerk..you know there probably would be a good chance I wouldnt have charged him with that stuff if he just would have told me about it but I can understand not wanting to let the cops know about your junkie kit sitting right on your seat.
Plodding on.....
A funny call. I was just driving around and I got flagged down by this passerby and he seemed distraught..I asked him whats wrong and he said that he had lost his dog...right next to him in the passenger seat sat his daughter who had an expression on her face like lassie just sat on a grenade. She was super sad. Her puppy was missing...bummer man. Well as I'm talking to him I get dispatched to a found dog call.....what are the odds of that timing...could you imagine if it was this guys dog...good oportunity to make some magic happen...I told him I'd find his dog and I think I know where it is....I went to the address of the found dog which was just down the road and sure enuff captain snuggles was A-o.k. Man you would have thought I was superman with better psychic powers. That kid lit up like a xmas tree. I tell ya you can do cpr on someone and bring em back to life and not get a thank you like that one. Very cool. I made sure to tell the guy that found him that he was the true hero. good times.
DV...the heat seems to bring out the worst in people....house full of people...takes 10 minutes of playing who's on first to determine how people are related to everyone else....*enter spaceballs line.....I'm your first cousin's sister's nephew's father's first roomate..** Long story short....boyfriend vs girlfriend got in an argument...side note..cutest little baby kid they had...could be on gerber commercials or welche's grape juice or something...absolutely adorable...anyway boyfriend vs girlfriend fight over money as is the case with most dv's. She get up in his face and he grabs her by the neck and slams her on the ground. Most of these guys are real a-holes but I actually felt a little bad for the guy...he was pretty ashamed of his behavior and legitimately felt bad...I usually never believe guys that do this but I did in this case....he admitted that it went to far and he shouldnt have done that.....anyway...he got a nice pair of bracelets and a tour of the city with a free stay at the grey bar motel.
The junkie....pulled a car over at 2am for driving without it's headlights on. I light him up and the guy blines it pulling over to the right slamming into a curb a couple times. He then proceeds to cross 2 lanes of traffic and pull over into a driveway on the complete opposite side of the road. Hmmm there's a couple indicators to write down for the report later. I contact him and the guy just looks stoned. As objective as you have to be in this job and you certainly can't make assumptions but its much like defining obscene :
In 1964, Justice Potter Stewart tried to explain "hard-core" pornography, or what is obscene, by saying, "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced . . . [b]ut I know it when I see it . . . "[1]
Its kind of the same with druggies...after a while you can just about pick them out of lineup. This guy's face was ghost white...his eyes were a bit depressed, wattery, bloodshot in some cases.....they are always sweaty and greeezy lookin. I didn't smell any alcohol on him so I called our super DUI king. He came out and did all the field sobriety tests and honestly he did pretty damn good. The only thing he didn't do well at is there is a rhomberg test (no idea how to spell rhomberg) where you close your eyes, tilt your head back and estimate the passage of 30 seconds in your head....you then open your eyes and say stop when you feel 30 seconds have gone by. Well he went almost a full minute.
My partner also took his pulse which is not standard practice but drug recognition experts do it. His pulse was close to 200 beats per minute...now being nervous is normal but that is a bit excessive. Something just wasnt right with this guy. He said he hadnt had a sip of alcohol and absolutely no drugs.....hmmm remember hitting the curb with your car pal? My partner leaned over to me at one point and whispered this guy is hammered. I trust my partner he gets over 100 dui's per year and that is alot. He said its up to you if you want to arrest this guy but he shouldnt drive. I thought it over in my head.....man I didnt have much driving on him...no smell of alcohol...no odor of weed...did pretty good on his sobriety tests....i just dont know..
i almost let him go but I remember in the academy they talked alot about legislative intent when laws are drafted...specifically they talked alot about DV laws and DUI laws. They teach you so ways and reasons why you should not arrest someone due to peoples "rights". Thats why I laugh when people say the cops can just arrest anyone for any reason...so not true. It actually takes alot of wrong behavior to get arrested contrary to popular belief. DV laws (domestic violence) were designed to primarily seperate the two involved parties at least for the night. This cools the situation down. Gone are the days when you tell the couple "well we better not have to come back out here tonight or one of you is going to jail" too many people ended up shot after the police left that basically any time an assault actually occurs...someone is going to the clink.
With the DUI legislative intent its basically all about getting people off the road..so much so that even if you arrest someone you cannot be held liable for a false arrest lawsuit down the road....kind of a nice protection...one of the few we have left. So thinking of that I was like ya know what.....lets just get this guy off the road..draw his blood and if it comes back clean fine and if it comes back with something I'll feel better about myself.
So I put the bracelets on him...I asked him "hey man am i gonna find anything in the car that's illegal "uh i dont think so" bam...that might as well be like saying yes.
Now for a suspected junkie this dude has a clean car. Usually when you search these people's cars they all have a similar smell...it smells like water sogged Camel Lights, bong watter, and geek sweat rolled into one. I dont know why but they all have that dirty laundry been sitting in the hamper under a heat lamp smell. This guys car was first of all nice and newer and it was clean. So I'm searchin and searchin and I get to the passenger side and I find a rolled up bath towel....I unroll it and jackpot I find his junk kit. Its a zippered pencil pouch style bag...within I find your typical heroin user supply kit.....2 small bottles of rubbing alcohol, tiny cotton balls (used as a filter when they suck up the juice prior to vain injection), alcohol swabs (you know to be clean about things) for the skin, 4 hyperdermic needles, surgical tubing (used to turnicut your arm to get vain expansion) and 2 nasty thimble-like things that have burnt tar residue in them....smelled like tar heroin...it smells like rotten butt sweat....
yeah i dont know what rotten butt sweat smells like but that is the first thing that pops into my head.....yep rotten butt sweat--its heroin bookem danno". Man what a liar that pisses me off so bad...of course he denied that it was his.....oh thats right..you held on to this stuff foryour buddy....your buddy oops left his stuff in his car....what a jerk..you know there probably would be a good chance I wouldnt have charged him with that stuff if he just would have told me about it but I can understand not wanting to let the cops know about your junkie kit sitting right on your seat.
Plodding on.....
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