Was a really slow night....I had one call all night. Not great for the blog but sometimes its nice to just have an average slow night. I went to one followup call....this guy has been having his tools repeatedly ripped off from his shed. He said he found one of the stolen tools behind the shed....hmmmm so I guess it was a nice burglar who returns things when they are done...of course he wanted it dusted for prints....everyone wants things dusted for prints....I understand but its frustrating with all these CSI shows....apparently we have a portable DNA testing machine and an electron microscope in the car...contrary to popular belief its pretty hard to get good prints off of things....not to mention if you actually do find a good print it goes off to the crime lab...the only one in the state...I think they may be a little more pressed to find murderers and rapists me thinks! Ah well I dusted it for prints more or less to make them happy and show that I tried doing something....
I got three suspended drivers tonight. That is awesome...I love getting suspended drivers cause their license usually gets suspended when they dont go to court or pay their fines...its a criminal offense to drive on a suspended license so its a good catch for me! I'm usually happy if I get 1 in an entire shift. The last one was by this really nice new car....usually you only get good suspended's from crappy cars....i had to double check it a few times cause I just could not believe that this particular car would have a suspended driver....worked out well.
That was about it aside from your usual barking dog and run of the mill calls.
plodding on ladies and gents.....plodding on.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
So you thought you had a bad day
So yesterday morning I was leaving shift and I heard the tones go out on the radio. Anytime you hear that you know its gonna be a pretty good call.....I wasnt involved but its a good story none the less.......
So the guys get there and there is a dude on the ground. He had apparently shot himself in the leg with his Beretta 9mm. It was a really bad bloody mess according to co-workers...well he survives. Apparently he had shot himself around 3am but couldnt get through to 911 till about 6am because due to the shock he was calling 611...
I get into work last night and I get dispatched to collision. Its a pretty bad one...a lately plowed into a parked trailer connected to a large suv....she apparently had become distracted by reaching for her phone and forgot to turn with the road. The trailer belongeed to a nice old couple who had just packed up their rare mode-T coupe before heading to Arizona for the winter. Talk about a downer.......so here is the kicker. The driver of the offending vehicle was the wife of the guy that shot himself just 12 hours Prior!!!! Talk about a bad day. Is days like that when you just have to wonder ...what next?.
3 suspended drivers tonight...yep I got the hat trick. Other than that it was pretty slow.
So the guys get there and there is a dude on the ground. He had apparently shot himself in the leg with his Beretta 9mm. It was a really bad bloody mess according to co-workers...well he survives. Apparently he had shot himself around 3am but couldnt get through to 911 till about 6am because due to the shock he was calling 611...
I get into work last night and I get dispatched to collision. Its a pretty bad one...a lately plowed into a parked trailer connected to a large suv....she apparently had become distracted by reaching for her phone and forgot to turn with the road. The trailer belongeed to a nice old couple who had just packed up their rare mode-T coupe before heading to Arizona for the winter. Talk about a downer.......so here is the kicker. The driver of the offending vehicle was the wife of the guy that shot himself just 12 hours Prior!!!! Talk about a bad day. Is days like that when you just have to wonder ...what next?.
3 suspended drivers tonight...yep I got the hat trick. Other than that it was pretty slow.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Animal Control
So unfortunately there is no animal control in our city past around 5pm so for the most part patrol officers have to take care of humane complaints now.....
The first call I got out of the gate was a hit dog by a car. I got on scene and the poor little fella was hit bad by a car. He was in the grass dying. He was agonal breathing which is not a good thing. I was worried to approach him because you never know what you are going to get...they could be protective and bite you. Luckily I was able to scoop him up. He was still breathing in the car but by the time I got to the animal hospital he passed away....it was sad pulling the big dog out of the car....I can only hope that he didn't suffer too much pain...I can handle alot of nasty things when it comes to people but I'm a softie for dogs. Really bummed me out.
Then I got dispatched to a similar thing but it was an injured cat....I showed up and there was the little guy in the bushes...his paw was completely mangled and he couldnt hardly move....I tried getting closer to pick it up and combat wounded crawled into the bushes through a patch of thorn stickers..............I wasnt able scoop him up and it just sucked going after that dog call....bummer
The first call I got out of the gate was a hit dog by a car. I got on scene and the poor little fella was hit bad by a car. He was in the grass dying. He was agonal breathing which is not a good thing. I was worried to approach him because you never know what you are going to get...they could be protective and bite you. Luckily I was able to scoop him up. He was still breathing in the car but by the time I got to the animal hospital he passed away....it was sad pulling the big dog out of the car....I can only hope that he didn't suffer too much pain...I can handle alot of nasty things when it comes to people but I'm a softie for dogs. Really bummed me out.
Then I got dispatched to a similar thing but it was an injured cat....I showed up and there was the little guy in the bushes...his paw was completely mangled and he couldnt hardly move....I tried getting closer to pick it up and combat wounded crawled into the bushes through a patch of thorn stickers..............I wasnt able scoop him up and it just sucked going after that dog call....bummer
Steak Knife to the throat
Ok I said I would get back and post about what happened so it basically went down like this......a couple of brothers went out partying at a bar drinking way to much. The older brother has been taking care of the younger brother who just cant seem to catch any luck. The typical broke no job story. So as they are drinking the younger brother starts feeling sorry for himself and when they get back home he does what any logical person would do........grab a steak knife in a cry for help and slices his neck wide open. We got there and they were both outside...the one guy was gasping for air and his brother was understandably shook up. The guy floppking all about the ground in pain....lotta blood but I think it was mainly superficial....what a crazy one!
Friday, September 18, 2009
where to begin
Well I don't know where to begin....the past few weeks have been slow apparently just to save up the business for last night....I have to get to bed cause I have to switch out of my graveyard schedule and be up at 10:30am today which is in about 3 hours so I can attend a wedding....lame...not the wedding but the getting up part! Sucky
I will come back in a few days and post about the night later but it ended with a guy stabbing himself in the neck with a steak knife!!! Good times!
I will come back in a few days and post about the night later but it ended with a guy stabbing himself in the neck with a steak knife!!! Good times!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Child Trafficking
So I got in the car...did my usual old check out routine. I must admit I've gotten a little slack on that....when you are on FTO (field training) you religiously check your car over before taking it out. Its almost like a pilot doing a pre-flight check of their aircraft before going out..cause its always that one day that you do not check something that something happens. I digress...
So right out of the gate I get dispatched to go help out on a call that dayshift was on. It was a DUI hit and run and they found the suspect vehicle. The guy was drunk and the other officer did most of the field sobriety tests and had him in custody when I arrived...he blew a .149 which is almost twice the legal limit. Now normally I would say thats alot but the guy was about 110 pounds soaking wet and he said he only had 2 beers.....I believe him ...usually I never do because everyone says I only had a couple when asked how much they have had to drink. But...this guy hadnt had anything to eat that day and considering how skinny he was I believe it.
He was pretty cooperative and had never been in trouble with the law before...I took him to the BAC machine (the official blow test). He lawyered up so I couldnt ask him any questions but sometimes that makes it easier. So I get all the way up to the jail (we dont have a local jail so they have to go up to the big county jail)...I get there and they are like ooooohhh he was in an accident yeah he is gonna have to go to the hospital to get cleared for booking.....sigh. Keep in mind its quite the process to get someone into the secure facility in the first place....so I had to go to the doctor at the ER and if you have ever been to an ER they sure are not speedy when it comes to anything.....and sure enough he got cleared...doctor asked him like 2 questions and took his temperature and vitals etc...sigh.
Anyway so we were waiting for the doctor and the guy told me....I dont lie to my wife or to the police and surprisingly I believed him...I said well you must have had good parents to raise you like that.....he said I dont know my parents I grew up in Thailand and when I was 4 years old I was stolen from my family and sold on the black market in Laos.....he said he spent 10 years trying to find his family with no success.......how sad is that ....I felt really bad after that about the whole thing......I mean really its not like he slammed into a kid or anything......unfortunately someone slammed on their breaks in front of him....well to bad its always the rear driver's fault for following to closely....sucks just a hard working guy and normally I never feel bad for these people but I actually felt a little bad for him.
He really wanted a smoke before going to jail and he didnt have any so I actually bought him a pack of smokes and let him smoke one before going to the jail....you wouldhave thought I gave him a 100 bucks or something....it was a small price and it felt like the right thing to do...considering he is probably going to serve some serious time for this....not like federal prison time but he will probably get 30 days in jail or something like that...not to mention possible job loss or something etc........ah well...crap happens right.....
Stolen car: agency assist call...got dispatched to help a neighboring agency with a dog track.....its where you sit on containment...basically a stolen car was seen and the cop turned around on them and they bailed on foot....so the chase was on with the k9 track...I used to get real excited about these but its pretty boring lately...you get assigned a spot and you sit there while the doggie tracks.....they actually found all 3 suspects and were taken into custody...I really had no part in it but it was still kinda fun.....
I had just about given up for the night and after I filled up my car with gas for the end of the night I was heading back to the station....I was pretty dissapointed cause I really hadn't found anything that night.....seemed like I just drove around the city in circles striking out running tons of plates......well I found a suspended driver right at the end of shift...that made me feel a little better!
Earlier in the night I saw a guy do a dip-$hit move turning from the inside turn lane across the curb lane 90 degrees really quickly into a parking lot.....I contacted the driver and the guy was just a jerk....I get up to the car and the guy is already a billy bad ass with me....saying nope I didnt do anything wrong you are just pulling me over to see if I'm DUI...although that would be cool if we were allowed to do that but despite his opinion I'm not allowed to pull people over for no reason.......well I give him a pretty heafty ticket for a couple violations and the guy says 'no you have to just give me a warning I didn't do anything etc etc" blah blah blah.....and then the guy has the nerve to tell me he is gonna go to the court and tell them that I was racially profiling....what an Ahole!
well thats about it....other than that it was a pretty boring night.
So right out of the gate I get dispatched to go help out on a call that dayshift was on. It was a DUI hit and run and they found the suspect vehicle. The guy was drunk and the other officer did most of the field sobriety tests and had him in custody when I arrived...he blew a .149 which is almost twice the legal limit. Now normally I would say thats alot but the guy was about 110 pounds soaking wet and he said he only had 2 beers.....I believe him ...usually I never do because everyone says I only had a couple when asked how much they have had to drink. But...this guy hadnt had anything to eat that day and considering how skinny he was I believe it.
He was pretty cooperative and had never been in trouble with the law before...I took him to the BAC machine (the official blow test). He lawyered up so I couldnt ask him any questions but sometimes that makes it easier. So I get all the way up to the jail (we dont have a local jail so they have to go up to the big county jail)...I get there and they are like ooooohhh he was in an accident yeah he is gonna have to go to the hospital to get cleared for booking.....sigh. Keep in mind its quite the process to get someone into the secure facility in the first place....so I had to go to the doctor at the ER and if you have ever been to an ER they sure are not speedy when it comes to anything.....and sure enough he got cleared...doctor asked him like 2 questions and took his temperature and vitals etc...sigh.
Anyway so we were waiting for the doctor and the guy told me....I dont lie to my wife or to the police and surprisingly I believed him...I said well you must have had good parents to raise you like that.....he said I dont know my parents I grew up in Thailand and when I was 4 years old I was stolen from my family and sold on the black market in Laos.....he said he spent 10 years trying to find his family with no success.......how sad is that ....I felt really bad after that about the whole thing......I mean really its not like he slammed into a kid or anything......unfortunately someone slammed on their breaks in front of him....well to bad its always the rear driver's fault for following to closely....sucks just a hard working guy and normally I never feel bad for these people but I actually felt a little bad for him.
He really wanted a smoke before going to jail and he didnt have any so I actually bought him a pack of smokes and let him smoke one before going to the jail....you wouldhave thought I gave him a 100 bucks or something....it was a small price and it felt like the right thing to do...considering he is probably going to serve some serious time for this....not like federal prison time but he will probably get 30 days in jail or something like that...not to mention possible job loss or something etc........ah well...crap happens right.....
Stolen car: agency assist call...got dispatched to help a neighboring agency with a dog track.....its where you sit on containment...basically a stolen car was seen and the cop turned around on them and they bailed on foot....so the chase was on with the k9 track...I used to get real excited about these but its pretty boring lately...you get assigned a spot and you sit there while the doggie tracks.....they actually found all 3 suspects and were taken into custody...I really had no part in it but it was still kinda fun.....
I had just about given up for the night and after I filled up my car with gas for the end of the night I was heading back to the station....I was pretty dissapointed cause I really hadn't found anything that night.....seemed like I just drove around the city in circles striking out running tons of plates......well I found a suspended driver right at the end of shift...that made me feel a little better!
Earlier in the night I saw a guy do a dip-$hit move turning from the inside turn lane across the curb lane 90 degrees really quickly into a parking lot.....I contacted the driver and the guy was just a jerk....I get up to the car and the guy is already a billy bad ass with me....saying nope I didnt do anything wrong you are just pulling me over to see if I'm DUI...although that would be cool if we were allowed to do that but despite his opinion I'm not allowed to pull people over for no reason.......well I give him a pretty heafty ticket for a couple violations and the guy says 'no you have to just give me a warning I didn't do anything etc etc" blah blah blah.....and then the guy has the nerve to tell me he is gonna go to the court and tell them that I was racially profiling....what an Ahole!
well thats about it....other than that it was a pretty boring night.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Call to Call
Had a rider with me. I like riders dont get me wrong...its kind of fun to show them what its all about but you forget how much you are multitasking when you are in the patrol car...you are listening to the radio...driving..typing on the computer...checking out cars and looking for crime etc and its just kind of hard to get in your own groove when someone is sitting right next to you asking a bunch of questions...its different when you have friends ride along then its kind of fun.
Went to quite a few calls tonight...lots of piddly stuff like disturbances etc. I went to a DV call (domestic violence)...2 brothers that had too much to drink and started a wrestling match that kind of got out of hand....well usually in dv cases somene needs to go to jail but in this case it was pretty impossible to determine who the primary aggressor was so we just let them go to bed and sleep it off....I really wasnt comfortable with it but the sgt was there and he said that was okay. If the stripes says its okay then i'm clear.
Had some juvenile complaints...not surprising considering it was the first week back at school...so ran around the city putting out small fires here and there.
The speeder from hell....caught a gal going 48 in a 35. Not to bad. I try to pull her over and she doesnt pull over despite my siren at full blare and my lights blinding her....she proceeds about another 8 blocks before pulling over. She proceeds to tell me how I should do my job and she did not pull over because "i didnt tell her where to pull over and I should do that". I asked her if she took a drivers test and she said yes.....I reminder her about the part where she is required to PULL OVER TO THE RIGHT if stopped by the police.
I gave her a speeding ticket and she went through the roof. She demanded that she see my radar and I was like no I dont have to show you it.....she told me several times how as a police officer I have to show her the radar unit flashing her speed. I wasnt sure if I still had the unit locked in and I told her several more times that I dont have to show it to her. But I figured that might calm her down so I went back to my car to make sure it was still flashing and it was so I brought her back to the car and showed it to her......she asked me what time that was taken at and I said that it doesnt show the time which it doesnt and she went through the roof calling me a liar etc and how the police are required to show her some kind of magic atomic clock with a picture of her car and a flashing speed reading..........so stupid just flored me.
Got 2 suspended drivers...so stoked i'm happy usually if I even get one and I got two that night. Lovin it.
Party complaint....not a big deal...even if its underage kids we usually just tell them to pour the beer out and no one is to drive. Go there and its totally loud...pretty unreasonable even for a friday night.....I knock on the door and they scatter like cockroaches....they see me through the window "oh shit its the cops no one say anything". No one comes to the door they shut out all the lights and hide like cowards.....the funny thing is...is that had one person come to the door that would have been the end of it...but ohhhh no they had to be dicks....look right at me in my face and turn around and go into another room. Well unfortunately some of their cars were parked in front of the fire lane which presented an un-do risk for public safety so they got their cars towed.....whammy.
That was about the extent of the fun for the evening.....the other stuff was just average calls nothing really of note.
Went to quite a few calls tonight...lots of piddly stuff like disturbances etc. I went to a DV call (domestic violence)...2 brothers that had too much to drink and started a wrestling match that kind of got out of hand....well usually in dv cases somene needs to go to jail but in this case it was pretty impossible to determine who the primary aggressor was so we just let them go to bed and sleep it off....I really wasnt comfortable with it but the sgt was there and he said that was okay. If the stripes says its okay then i'm clear.
Had some juvenile complaints...not surprising considering it was the first week back at school...so ran around the city putting out small fires here and there.
The speeder from hell....caught a gal going 48 in a 35. Not to bad. I try to pull her over and she doesnt pull over despite my siren at full blare and my lights blinding her....she proceeds about another 8 blocks before pulling over. She proceeds to tell me how I should do my job and she did not pull over because "i didnt tell her where to pull over and I should do that". I asked her if she took a drivers test and she said yes.....I reminder her about the part where she is required to PULL OVER TO THE RIGHT if stopped by the police.
I gave her a speeding ticket and she went through the roof. She demanded that she see my radar and I was like no I dont have to show you it.....she told me several times how as a police officer I have to show her the radar unit flashing her speed. I wasnt sure if I still had the unit locked in and I told her several more times that I dont have to show it to her. But I figured that might calm her down so I went back to my car to make sure it was still flashing and it was so I brought her back to the car and showed it to her......she asked me what time that was taken at and I said that it doesnt show the time which it doesnt and she went through the roof calling me a liar etc and how the police are required to show her some kind of magic atomic clock with a picture of her car and a flashing speed reading..........so stupid just flored me.
Got 2 suspended drivers...so stoked i'm happy usually if I even get one and I got two that night. Lovin it.
Party complaint....not a big deal...even if its underage kids we usually just tell them to pour the beer out and no one is to drive. Go there and its totally loud...pretty unreasonable even for a friday night.....I knock on the door and they scatter like cockroaches....they see me through the window "oh shit its the cops no one say anything". No one comes to the door they shut out all the lights and hide like cowards.....the funny thing is...is that had one person come to the door that would have been the end of it...but ohhhh no they had to be dicks....look right at me in my face and turn around and go into another room. Well unfortunately some of their cars were parked in front of the fire lane which presented an un-do risk for public safety so they got their cars towed.....whammy.
That was about the extent of the fun for the evening.....the other stuff was just average calls nothing really of note.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Stacked UP Deep
So a couple interesting things happened last night.
I got a couple suspended drivers which is nice because my goal is usually 1 a night and i'm happy with that...getting 2 is just nice frosting on the cake...one pretty much fell in my lap which was nice.
I had to go to a neighboring city to try and look for an elderly missing person. I show up at a supermarket where she is known to shop and all these people flag me down well it was totally unrelated to what I was dealing with but these people saw a police car and flagged me down....they apparently had called 911 about a disturbance this guy had come back out to his car and found a stranger in it.
so I knock on the window and the guy is just about catatonic...I open up the car door and was like hey buddy get the F out of there and he is out of it....I dont know if he is drunk or stoned but he didnt know which way the ground was......so he wasnt goin with the program so I "assisted him out and to the ground". The other city pd came by finally and we werer trying to get him up and into the patrol car and yet again the guy couldnt even stand...we should have just let him stay on the ground but I guess it was probably safer having him in the car......needless to say I tweeked my back pulling up getting him on his feet it wasnt too bad but I think i'm gonna feel it when I wake up later today....I've always had a tweeky back....genetics I guess..my older brother has a tweeky back and it just sucks....they teach you all these neato techniques for getting someone off the ground without having to do that to your back but they are pretty painful for whomever you are dealing with and since I really didn't have a crime I didnt see it just to put the hurt on this dude.
Went to a theft call.....let me preface this with its campaign voting time so all the candidates for city counsel start going crazy over their yard signs etc....yeah well this particular fellow was well without giving it away was a very important figure to us police and what happened was this....someone took a few of his campaign signs down because they were posted in the plaza where his business is...I think thats understandable the guy doesnt want politics driving away potential customers etc....so I find the dude and the signs in the back of his rig and go back to the scene.....well usually we would just give them back I mean they are only worth a few dollars anyway but this particular victim really thought that he was important and decided he wanted the guy charged etc.....so dumb so we ended up referring it to the prosecutor and taking a report....so lame.
Stacked Deep.....got a call from another neighboring agency....they were looking for a guy who got mad at his girlfriend so he ran her off the road in a seperate car while she is 2 months pregnant...strangles her and then shows her a pistol......nice guy huh...well supposedly he was hiding out in an apartment in our city....supposedly this dude is a gang banger, carries guns, and sells drugs as well. I just switched to a different crew and one of the guys is on the swat team....thats cool and all but man I think the super ninja army tactics go a little overboard..why not just knock on the door to see if the dude is even in first....instead we spend an hour and a half rehearsing a scene from **plug action cop movie in here*** about tactics and who's got the riffle coverage etc....we had like 12 cops there......yeah pretty silly. I happened to get the shield guy position which means I'm basically a meat shield for everyone else if the guy starts shooting I basically hold the shield up and take fire.....great...not to mention the damn thing weighs like 25 pounds and you have to hold it up with one arm the entire time......fricken lame......also as noted above my back was already out of wack......so we sat there for an hour and half rehearsing this thing and the dude was not even in the apartment......call it being safe but I thought it was a little overboard.....again I'm thankful a swat guy is on my crew but I think this is the beginning of many things like this to come.......sigh.
well that was about it...another exciting night commiting law enforcement.
I got a couple suspended drivers which is nice because my goal is usually 1 a night and i'm happy with that...getting 2 is just nice frosting on the cake...one pretty much fell in my lap which was nice.
I had to go to a neighboring city to try and look for an elderly missing person. I show up at a supermarket where she is known to shop and all these people flag me down well it was totally unrelated to what I was dealing with but these people saw a police car and flagged me down....they apparently had called 911 about a disturbance this guy had come back out to his car and found a stranger in it.
so I knock on the window and the guy is just about catatonic...I open up the car door and was like hey buddy get the F out of there and he is out of it....I dont know if he is drunk or stoned but he didnt know which way the ground was......so he wasnt goin with the program so I "assisted him out and to the ground". The other city pd came by finally and we werer trying to get him up and into the patrol car and yet again the guy couldnt even stand...we should have just let him stay on the ground but I guess it was probably safer having him in the car......needless to say I tweeked my back pulling up getting him on his feet it wasnt too bad but I think i'm gonna feel it when I wake up later today....I've always had a tweeky back....genetics I guess..my older brother has a tweeky back and it just sucks....they teach you all these neato techniques for getting someone off the ground without having to do that to your back but they are pretty painful for whomever you are dealing with and since I really didn't have a crime I didnt see it just to put the hurt on this dude.
Went to a theft call.....let me preface this with its campaign voting time so all the candidates for city counsel start going crazy over their yard signs etc....yeah well this particular fellow was well without giving it away was a very important figure to us police and what happened was this....someone took a few of his campaign signs down because they were posted in the plaza where his business is...I think thats understandable the guy doesnt want politics driving away potential customers etc....so I find the dude and the signs in the back of his rig and go back to the scene.....well usually we would just give them back I mean they are only worth a few dollars anyway but this particular victim really thought that he was important and decided he wanted the guy charged etc.....so dumb so we ended up referring it to the prosecutor and taking a report....so lame.
Stacked Deep.....got a call from another neighboring agency....they were looking for a guy who got mad at his girlfriend so he ran her off the road in a seperate car while she is 2 months pregnant...strangles her and then shows her a pistol......nice guy huh...well supposedly he was hiding out in an apartment in our city....supposedly this dude is a gang banger, carries guns, and sells drugs as well. I just switched to a different crew and one of the guys is on the swat team....thats cool and all but man I think the super ninja army tactics go a little overboard..why not just knock on the door to see if the dude is even in first....instead we spend an hour and a half rehearsing a scene from **plug action cop movie in here*** about tactics and who's got the riffle coverage etc....we had like 12 cops there......yeah pretty silly. I happened to get the shield guy position which means I'm basically a meat shield for everyone else if the guy starts shooting I basically hold the shield up and take fire.....great...not to mention the damn thing weighs like 25 pounds and you have to hold it up with one arm the entire time......fricken lame......also as noted above my back was already out of wack......so we sat there for an hour and half rehearsing this thing and the dude was not even in the apartment......call it being safe but I thought it was a little overboard.....again I'm thankful a swat guy is on my crew but I think this is the beginning of many things like this to come.......sigh.
well that was about it...another exciting night commiting law enforcement.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
nice!
In August 2002, when the child victim turned seven years old, her case was brought to court, requiring her to testify against her abuser. Unfortunately, the young victim froze while on the stand and was unable to provide key testimony needed to obtain a conviction. During the recess granted by the judge, the prosecuting attorney, the child’s adoptive parents and a psychologist all attempted to convince the child to return to the stand.
After more than an hour of cajoling the child, Miazga asked to speak with the girl. He shared with her that he was often afraid during his job as a trooper and he removed his badge from his uniform and placed it in the girl’s hand. He told her the badge gave him courage and protected him when he was scared and that it would do the same for her if she took it with her on the stand. The young victim agreed to return to the courtroom, clutching the badge tightly as she told the jury the details of her horrifying experience. Her testimony led to a guilty verdict of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and a sentence of life in prison for her abuser.
In recognizing Miazga, The Crime Victim Foundation noted his willingness to give comfort and strength to a child victim of sexual abuse.
"It is only by working together as a community that we can truly empower victims and assist them in their attempts to heal from the devastating affects of crime," stated Rep. William Van Regenmorter, president of The Crime Victim Foundation. "Trooper Miazga’ s willingness to go above and beyond what was required to give comfort and strength to a child victim of sexual abuse demonstrates a commitment to all victims."
After more than an hour of cajoling the child, Miazga asked to speak with the girl. He shared with her that he was often afraid during his job as a trooper and he removed his badge from his uniform and placed it in the girl’s hand. He told her the badge gave him courage and protected him when he was scared and that it would do the same for her if she took it with her on the stand. The young victim agreed to return to the courtroom, clutching the badge tightly as she told the jury the details of her horrifying experience. Her testimony led to a guilty verdict of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and a sentence of life in prison for her abuser.
In recognizing Miazga, The Crime Victim Foundation noted his willingness to give comfort and strength to a child victim of sexual abuse.
"It is only by working together as a community that we can truly empower victims and assist them in their attempts to heal from the devastating affects of crime," stated Rep. William Van Regenmorter, president of The Crime Victim Foundation. "Trooper Miazga’ s willingness to go above and beyond what was required to give comfort and strength to a child victim of sexual abuse demonstrates a commitment to all victims."
Monday, September 7, 2009
Again another slow night.
Wow this blog is starting to read like an accounting report....BORING. I really didnt have anything happen...seems like its been unusally slow lately...I guess that is a good thing.....I wrote 6 tickets tonight and had one arrest for a suspended driver....other than that man it was dead out there..I think I ran every plate in the city.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Rain Rain Rain
Traffic enforcement was ruff cause it was just poring down rain last night...couldnt believe it....I had my wipers on high at one point and I still couldnt see 10 feet in front of my car...cats and dogs I tell ya. I decided to make one stop right as the rain picked up and I've never cut anyone loose so fast in my life.
Catch em clean em......man we have a strange policy where if the sgt is gone the acting sgt cant leave the city...so this includes DUI's so my acting sgt had a DUI tonight. I had to take him to the blow machine at the jail. Wow the guy was annoying. He kept saying over and over and over how much of an asshole our city cops can be cause "he's not dangerous and he's not a criminal and shouldnt we be arresting pedaphiles and drug pushers etc and he knows when he has had too much to drink and I was just going a few blocks"....yeah to get more beer...what a jerk. The funny thing is that he had just been arrested a month before by us for DUI. His first one has not even gone to trial yet..unbelievable.....he blew over twice the legal limit. Yet we are picking on him somehow...god forbid we get this kind of guy off the street as your kids are walking around....guy was just a major ahole....just an unpleasant experience all around. Anyway...I dont mind processing dui's but its been getting old having to clean up someone else's catch of the day.....it takes me off the road for a couple hours total when you count having to write the report etc and I dont get any kind of statistic for it in my record so then my numbers go down etc.
Collision....kid was reaching for his cell phone...so it distracted him to the point where the road turned but he didn't so he just went straight off the road and into a parked car.....pretty easy...I used to hate doing collisions but now I kind of like them....I have figured out a good system of getting all the information I need so it actually goes pretty quick. There were some neighborhood kids in the area riding bikes and they were all looky-lews. It was nice to actually see kids playing in the street and riding bicycles ....they asked me if i had any cards or stickers and my car was totally empty....I told them I would come back with some goodies. I went back to the station and was happy. This lady brings us like 100 stuffed teddy bears to give out to kids that have been through something tramatic.....I grabbed 4 or 5 of them and a whole bunch of these Trading cards....they have a cool picture of our logo and patrol car on the front with our mission statement on the back........I gave those to the kids and man I looked like a hero. Their eyes totally lit up.....I tell ya after some of the crap I see on a regular basis this was a really cool thing to experience. It was worth taking the time to do it.....that kind of thing pays dividends way down the road and hopefully they end up being good young adults.
Stranded: 2 13 year old boys called 911 cause they missed there bus to get back up to town about 22 miles away. Luckily I knew a cop from that town so I was able to meet him halfway and take the kids up there....figured it was the right thing to do despite not being a taxi service....it was cold out and they were soaked to the bone. They were pretty appreciative for the ride which is nice to hear once in a while...it was really really slow due to the rainstorm and it was nice to drive somewhere different rather than driving in circles around the small city.
Suspended driver....I got lucky..I was really bored and checking a bunch of parks etc and this one car drove by.....it didn't have a license plate mounted in the front of the car......so I contacted the driver after I pulled him over and I thought for sure it was just gonna be routine.....it was a newer nice clean car and he had insurance on it so usually people like that are clean....anyway he ended up having a suspended driver's license! woo hoo
onward........
Catch em clean em......man we have a strange policy where if the sgt is gone the acting sgt cant leave the city...so this includes DUI's so my acting sgt had a DUI tonight. I had to take him to the blow machine at the jail. Wow the guy was annoying. He kept saying over and over and over how much of an asshole our city cops can be cause "he's not dangerous and he's not a criminal and shouldnt we be arresting pedaphiles and drug pushers etc and he knows when he has had too much to drink and I was just going a few blocks"....yeah to get more beer...what a jerk. The funny thing is that he had just been arrested a month before by us for DUI. His first one has not even gone to trial yet..unbelievable.....he blew over twice the legal limit. Yet we are picking on him somehow...god forbid we get this kind of guy off the street as your kids are walking around....guy was just a major ahole....just an unpleasant experience all around. Anyway...I dont mind processing dui's but its been getting old having to clean up someone else's catch of the day.....it takes me off the road for a couple hours total when you count having to write the report etc and I dont get any kind of statistic for it in my record so then my numbers go down etc.
Collision....kid was reaching for his cell phone...so it distracted him to the point where the road turned but he didn't so he just went straight off the road and into a parked car.....pretty easy...I used to hate doing collisions but now I kind of like them....I have figured out a good system of getting all the information I need so it actually goes pretty quick. There were some neighborhood kids in the area riding bikes and they were all looky-lews. It was nice to actually see kids playing in the street and riding bicycles ....they asked me if i had any cards or stickers and my car was totally empty....I told them I would come back with some goodies. I went back to the station and was happy. This lady brings us like 100 stuffed teddy bears to give out to kids that have been through something tramatic.....I grabbed 4 or 5 of them and a whole bunch of these Trading cards....they have a cool picture of our logo and patrol car on the front with our mission statement on the back........I gave those to the kids and man I looked like a hero. Their eyes totally lit up.....I tell ya after some of the crap I see on a regular basis this was a really cool thing to experience. It was worth taking the time to do it.....that kind of thing pays dividends way down the road and hopefully they end up being good young adults.
Stranded: 2 13 year old boys called 911 cause they missed there bus to get back up to town about 22 miles away. Luckily I knew a cop from that town so I was able to meet him halfway and take the kids up there....figured it was the right thing to do despite not being a taxi service....it was cold out and they were soaked to the bone. They were pretty appreciative for the ride which is nice to hear once in a while...it was really really slow due to the rainstorm and it was nice to drive somewhere different rather than driving in circles around the small city.
Suspended driver....I got lucky..I was really bored and checking a bunch of parks etc and this one car drove by.....it didn't have a license plate mounted in the front of the car......so I contacted the driver after I pulled him over and I thought for sure it was just gonna be routine.....it was a newer nice clean car and he had insurance on it so usually people like that are clean....anyway he ended up having a suspended driver's license! woo hoo
onward........
Saturday, September 5, 2009
just an average night
Wow guys I feel like I've been letting you down....been pretty boring lately. No exciting calls. I wrote 5 tickets last night and one arrest for a suspended driver....the other stuff was just speeding etc...pretty fun night though...nothing super interesting.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
great night
Great night last night...probably the best shift I've had in a long long while.
I didn't have any report calls last night at all so it was pretty much all self initiated activity. Had some great traffic stops. I ended up getting two arrests last night...I'll spare you the details but just wanted to hop on here and say how awesome it was. Just a good feeling overall!
word up!
I didn't have any report calls last night at all so it was pretty much all self initiated activity. Had some great traffic stops. I ended up getting two arrests last night...I'll spare you the details but just wanted to hop on here and say how awesome it was. Just a good feeling overall!
word up!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The last day of this crew
So my schedule is staying the same but I'm its the end of the trimester at work and we are switching crews. I was issued a gun locker at work for home...super cool cause I was gonna buy one anyway...that was awesome of them. Also got a carry case for my ar-15...fricken sweet.
I'm going to a new crew and that crew is fat stacked....we are gonna have up to 5 and a sgt on at one time...cant even fathom that...its gonna be sweet. Usually its been 2 and a sgt...that will be nice on paper!
Pretty slow week. Last night was pretty uneventful. I had a couple reports. The first one was a threats report...pretty cut and dry...love triangle new boyfriend threatened old boyfriend over the phone...all over a girl...dumb.
Child abuse report.....step mom allegedly choked a 6 year old and tried to shuv dish soap down his throat...cute kid...poor lil fella. He did have a red mark. The stepmom I contacted her...she said her son actually pinched his neck...i am leaning toward believing that story over the dishsoap one I dont think that really happened..kinda a gut feeling. Anyway forwarded the case to CPS for them to investigate.
Partner got a dui...the passenger had a couple felony warrants. I got to take him up to jail.......
Shoplift report...kids did a beer grab and dash at a supermarket....too bad the clerk got his license plate number...mom was pissed...he came back and owned up to it....whoops!
That was about it...I was hoping to do a bunch of traffic stops but I kept getting tied up with little stuff last night.
snoozer!
I'm going to a new crew and that crew is fat stacked....we are gonna have up to 5 and a sgt on at one time...cant even fathom that...its gonna be sweet. Usually its been 2 and a sgt...that will be nice on paper!
Pretty slow week. Last night was pretty uneventful. I had a couple reports. The first one was a threats report...pretty cut and dry...love triangle new boyfriend threatened old boyfriend over the phone...all over a girl...dumb.
Child abuse report.....step mom allegedly choked a 6 year old and tried to shuv dish soap down his throat...cute kid...poor lil fella. He did have a red mark. The stepmom I contacted her...she said her son actually pinched his neck...i am leaning toward believing that story over the dishsoap one I dont think that really happened..kinda a gut feeling. Anyway forwarded the case to CPS for them to investigate.
Partner got a dui...the passenger had a couple felony warrants. I got to take him up to jail.......
Shoplift report...kids did a beer grab and dash at a supermarket....too bad the clerk got his license plate number...mom was pissed...he came back and owned up to it....whoops!
That was about it...I was hoping to do a bunch of traffic stops but I kept getting tied up with little stuff last night.
snoozer!
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