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.