Started off with tagging a couple speeders..kinda bread and butter...some people dont enjoy it but I dont mind at all...its just straight forward and simple...I like that.
Got 2 suspended drivers. I like these cause they are simple and they count as an arrest. Got one guy that I knew was suspended...saw his car and ran him via computer and sure enough he was suspended.
Got another gal who was suspended coming out of a local known drug area. I couldnt get my computer to work and she was way down the road by the time it came back I saw that she was suspended. She was a stripper and man did NOT look good...she has had alot of years that have not been kind to her I dont know how she stays in that profession and actually makes money. I thought they were supposed to make alot of money as well but apparently she snorts it all up her nose. Had the drug dog run through her car and the dog indicated. Amazing dog he hit on a small plastic baggie (about 1 inch square) that had a little bit of residue in it. We found her secret stash compartment in her car but it was empty we didnt tell her we found that so next time if we see her we will know where to look. Tried to get her to "work" meaning to flip on a bigger fish but she wouldnt play ball so she got the full suspended charge.
DUI. Stopped a car that was weaving a little bit. She had all kind of indicators of a typical drunk. You give them divided attention tests at the car like asking them small talk questions (where ya goin, where ya coming from sort of thing) while they try and find there license. Drunks can only do one thing at a time and sure enough every time I asked her a question she would stop looking for her license and look right at me to answer or ask "what"?. Car reaked of Alcohol. She was driving her friends home...she was the least blasted of all three of them so I guess they thought that was the safest thing to do. She was only 18 years old and didnt even have a drivers license..she admitted to me later that she had used a fake ID to get into a bar in a city far away...Her friend was on her 21 run and was completely blasted when i walked up to the car she (in the back seat) had her dress down fully exposing herself cause she had leaned out the back door to puke her guts out.
Ran the field sobriety tests on the driver...I hate doing those things cause there are so many things that you have to be very specific about as far as instructions etc...she was hammered...she refused to blow into my portable breath testing machine. I arrested her for DUI cause you dont need much when its a minor...only a .02...got her to the BAC facility (the official blow test) and she lawyered up real quick...got her lawyer on the phone. There are several places they have to sign as your going through the forms and its not an admission of guilt just a receipt of acknowledgement that I read them certain legal items as far as constitutional rights etc and man she was so blasted she kept stalling thinking that her alcohol level would go down i'm sure...tactic doesnt work it takes hours to matabalize alcohol. I had to call and wake up the lawyer like 3 times cause she kept saying she didnt understand......lord almighty I lost my patience with that. She finally blew into the thing....wasted over double the legal limit for an adult and 8 times the legal limit for a minor.....wuuufta.
Then she started crying and crying and crying...trauma drama for sure. Spent about 4 hours between the processing and all the paperwork for the report....DUI is equal to failing to transfer a vehicle license title within 45 days which takes about 2 minutes to write the report...gotta love DUI defense attorneys that have made it that way....sigh.
All and all great night...3 arrests. Not bad at all...I'll take it!
plodding on!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Almost had to shoot.
Greetings faithful followers. Hey sorry its been a while since my last post. Where to begin with the excuses. Well first off my charger went out on my little laptop and I usually sit on the couch and type these up so thats been out of commission and lets face it after 12 hours walking 10 more feet downstairs to the other computer is waaaay to much work LOL. I got behind a little bit and then its like oh geez where do I start and finally sometimes Im just lazy sorry...its true sorry bout that. I was thinking the other day about the blog etc and I remember when I used to dispatch it was kinda the same thing. I would always come home with crazy stories but eventually they all just kind of blended together and it just melts into .....how was work??...well it was kinda busy ....or it was kinda slow. Eventually after a while the excitement kind of wares off and its like any other job I suppose.
Ok so a few weeks ago it was pretty crazy. I had one week inparticular that really took the cake.
Disturbance call: went to a call.....2 buddies were hanging out. ONe is just totally lunatic. They had both been drinking watching movies and lunatic boy decides to start breaking the other dudes dvd's for no apparent reason. Buddy confronts him about it and the guy just says "you and me right now" and ends up fighting this guy. What a wierdo. Well he is even wierder when we are talking to him asking what year it is etc etc. All is dandy until he gets in my patrol car. He starts bashing his head against my partition...I tell him to stop and he says "you think i'm playing games....fine!" then he rolls over onto his back and starts mule kicking my side window with both legs. I mean hard! His whole body is rearing up and he is lifting his knees up to his chin and thrusting both legs into the window. Thankfully our department is smart and we have reenforced steel bars that go across the window! I called for the welcoming committee at the jail and it was great. 4 big guards came out as I pulled into the sally port.
This one jail guard is awesome totally killed him with kindness and was like "hey man just want to give you a chance to cooperate" well the dude didnt like him either so they totally tricked him. After a screaming fit yelling something about how he is God or something the guard opens up the door with a big smile and was like "right this way Mr John Doe sir" so as the dude is scooting out that way no doubt about to start kicking at him 2 other big ass guards open the other door and swoop him out the other side totally confusing him! I thought that was awesome! As I'm doing my paperwork you could hear the guy in his rubber room screaming "F U C K ....Y O U ". Just like a 5 year old who happened to be now 40 years old . Gotta love it.
Man with a gun: I got dispatched to a disturbance call. A neighbor heard some screaming and overheard someone say something about "I'm gonna go get my gat". Well me and the ol sarge start walking up and we can hear some commotion behind the house.....so we start creaping around the house all ninja like and we round the corner. I SEE A DUDE STANDING WITH HIS BACK TOWARD ME AND HE HAS A HANDGUN POINTED UP AT THE SECOND STORY WINDOW OF THE HOUSE. HOLY SHIT BATMAN!
It was amazing to see all your training take over. "STOP POLICE DROP THE GUN" the whole 9 yards. He starts to turn around and then bolts off behind a blind corner where its dark and we couldnt see him. There had been 2 or 3 other people around him and they all ran inside the house as soon as they saw it was the police. So we started to chase him and then I just kept thinking ambush ambush ambush. I called out to just hold up and wait for the dog. It took every inch of me not to give in to the predator prey instinct and just chase him down but I think that in hinesight it was a very very wise decision. I'm really glad we decided to go that route. But now its crazy we got people in the house....there could be more weapons/suspects inside so you dont want to turn your back to the house and also you have crazy guy hiding somewhere with the gun...heart pounding! Juices flowing! Scary stuff for sure.
So the entire world shows up. Talk about cavalry...3 cities of cops dumped to get over to us. K9 track is on....they track his scent over about a block through back yards and find his shirt. ONly convicts know this trick...he is smart to ditch his outter shirt..makes sense right...say a bank robber robs a bank wearing a bright yellow shirt and thats the description that gets broadcasted well the first thing i would do is ditch that shirt so that my polkadot blue undershirt is the one i'm wearing. ONe of the containment units finds him back near the original scene...he doubled back. Of course he denies knowing anything that is going on and claims he was just walking down the street...despite being sweaty, having torn pants, mud on his shirt and grass in his hair (seems like someone who was running away from a police dog)....here is the crappy part...NO GUN. The dog handler tries doing an evidence track to try and find the gun but we never find it.
The crappy crappy part is....I never really saw his face. Even though you are 99 percent sure that is the guy and the dog tracks him all the way to the patrol car giving a positive indication that is the guy that ran (i'll spare all the science details here about court lore and dog tracking) we got nothin. Unfortunately in this job you have to think like a defense attorney half the time and not a cop.....so HE WALKS.
The rest is kind of a long story but I was so pissed we didnt charge him with anything after all that. How crappy is that...all I could think of is that hidden gun somewhere where a kid could find it and kill themselves.
So here is the cool part...fortunately dayshift came on and one of my partners knows this dudes parole officer. OH yeah the guy has done hard time for armed robbery in the past. One of his conditions was that he was not to associate with a certain somebuddy and that somebuddy happened to be in his house that night........thanks to that we were able to contact his parole officer and his parole officer showed up about a week later to his house on a surprise visit....they found 2 stolen guns and a bunch of drugs in his house!!!! WOOOOOOOT he is gonna go to the pokey for a long long time. That made me feel sooooo good.
Good times ya'll!!!! Thats all for now guys.
Ok so a few weeks ago it was pretty crazy. I had one week inparticular that really took the cake.
Disturbance call: went to a call.....2 buddies were hanging out. ONe is just totally lunatic. They had both been drinking watching movies and lunatic boy decides to start breaking the other dudes dvd's for no apparent reason. Buddy confronts him about it and the guy just says "you and me right now" and ends up fighting this guy. What a wierdo. Well he is even wierder when we are talking to him asking what year it is etc etc. All is dandy until he gets in my patrol car. He starts bashing his head against my partition...I tell him to stop and he says "you think i'm playing games....fine!" then he rolls over onto his back and starts mule kicking my side window with both legs. I mean hard! His whole body is rearing up and he is lifting his knees up to his chin and thrusting both legs into the window. Thankfully our department is smart and we have reenforced steel bars that go across the window! I called for the welcoming committee at the jail and it was great. 4 big guards came out as I pulled into the sally port.
This one jail guard is awesome totally killed him with kindness and was like "hey man just want to give you a chance to cooperate" well the dude didnt like him either so they totally tricked him. After a screaming fit yelling something about how he is God or something the guard opens up the door with a big smile and was like "right this way Mr John Doe sir" so as the dude is scooting out that way no doubt about to start kicking at him 2 other big ass guards open the other door and swoop him out the other side totally confusing him! I thought that was awesome! As I'm doing my paperwork you could hear the guy in his rubber room screaming "F U C K ....Y O U ". Just like a 5 year old who happened to be now 40 years old . Gotta love it.
Man with a gun: I got dispatched to a disturbance call. A neighbor heard some screaming and overheard someone say something about "I'm gonna go get my gat". Well me and the ol sarge start walking up and we can hear some commotion behind the house.....so we start creaping around the house all ninja like and we round the corner. I SEE A DUDE STANDING WITH HIS BACK TOWARD ME AND HE HAS A HANDGUN POINTED UP AT THE SECOND STORY WINDOW OF THE HOUSE. HOLY SHIT BATMAN!
It was amazing to see all your training take over. "STOP POLICE DROP THE GUN" the whole 9 yards. He starts to turn around and then bolts off behind a blind corner where its dark and we couldnt see him. There had been 2 or 3 other people around him and they all ran inside the house as soon as they saw it was the police. So we started to chase him and then I just kept thinking ambush ambush ambush. I called out to just hold up and wait for the dog. It took every inch of me not to give in to the predator prey instinct and just chase him down but I think that in hinesight it was a very very wise decision. I'm really glad we decided to go that route. But now its crazy we got people in the house....there could be more weapons/suspects inside so you dont want to turn your back to the house and also you have crazy guy hiding somewhere with the gun...heart pounding! Juices flowing! Scary stuff for sure.
So the entire world shows up. Talk about cavalry...3 cities of cops dumped to get over to us. K9 track is on....they track his scent over about a block through back yards and find his shirt. ONly convicts know this trick...he is smart to ditch his outter shirt..makes sense right...say a bank robber robs a bank wearing a bright yellow shirt and thats the description that gets broadcasted well the first thing i would do is ditch that shirt so that my polkadot blue undershirt is the one i'm wearing. ONe of the containment units finds him back near the original scene...he doubled back. Of course he denies knowing anything that is going on and claims he was just walking down the street...despite being sweaty, having torn pants, mud on his shirt and grass in his hair (seems like someone who was running away from a police dog)....here is the crappy part...NO GUN. The dog handler tries doing an evidence track to try and find the gun but we never find it.
The crappy crappy part is....I never really saw his face. Even though you are 99 percent sure that is the guy and the dog tracks him all the way to the patrol car giving a positive indication that is the guy that ran (i'll spare all the science details here about court lore and dog tracking) we got nothin. Unfortunately in this job you have to think like a defense attorney half the time and not a cop.....so HE WALKS.
The rest is kind of a long story but I was so pissed we didnt charge him with anything after all that. How crappy is that...all I could think of is that hidden gun somewhere where a kid could find it and kill themselves.
So here is the cool part...fortunately dayshift came on and one of my partners knows this dudes parole officer. OH yeah the guy has done hard time for armed robbery in the past. One of his conditions was that he was not to associate with a certain somebuddy and that somebuddy happened to be in his house that night........thanks to that we were able to contact his parole officer and his parole officer showed up about a week later to his house on a surprise visit....they found 2 stolen guns and a bunch of drugs in his house!!!! WOOOOOOOT he is gonna go to the pokey for a long long time. That made me feel sooooo good.
Good times ya'll!!!! Thats all for now guys.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Some Compassion
I was running lidar (like radar but it uses a laser) and this gal came flying down the road ...60mph in a 35mph zone and weaving in and out of traffic. I pull the gal over and she doesnt stop right away....oh man its on I'm thinking here we go pursuit. So I she finally stops and I can tell immediately that she is probably too drunk to be driving. Long story short she blew into my portable breath tester after some field sobriety tests and she was almost double the legal limit. She was crying the entire time she was doing them and I asked her why she was so upset. She told me that her husband had just told her he was leaving her for another woman.....now usually when the tears come they are fake but these were real...as they taught me in the academy.......
When it comes to tears to find out whether they are faking or not the motto goes "No snot believe not" and I tell you that is so true...anytime anyone is really crying for real they will always have real snotcicles...I have used that to my advantage many times....I called her husband and politically corectly asked what the situation was and he cooberated her story so I knew she was telling the truth.
Now I have never done this for anyone before but I don't know man...I just couldnt see hammering this girl after the news she had received and the way I look at it...the legislative intent is to get drunk drivers off the road.....so wow did she dodge a bullet...an average dui costs around 5 to 6000 dollars in fees and lawyer charges etc...not to mention going to court and having this stuff on your record. So I gave her a break...a real big one.
I'm just glad I got her off the road cause she could have killed someone......I did give the dad speach to her and it really hit home when I talked about how she could have made her 7 and 8 year old kids orphans that night.....didn't know I could make someone cry so hard......those are the kind of people I don't mind giving breaks to if it is deserved and with me its a one time shot....if I ever catch her on the road again she is toast....I hope I made the right decision.
When it comes to tears to find out whether they are faking or not the motto goes "No snot believe not" and I tell you that is so true...anytime anyone is really crying for real they will always have real snotcicles...I have used that to my advantage many times....I called her husband and politically corectly asked what the situation was and he cooberated her story so I knew she was telling the truth.
Now I have never done this for anyone before but I don't know man...I just couldnt see hammering this girl after the news she had received and the way I look at it...the legislative intent is to get drunk drivers off the road.....so wow did she dodge a bullet...an average dui costs around 5 to 6000 dollars in fees and lawyer charges etc...not to mention going to court and having this stuff on your record. So I gave her a break...a real big one.
I'm just glad I got her off the road cause she could have killed someone......I did give the dad speach to her and it really hit home when I talked about how she could have made her 7 and 8 year old kids orphans that night.....didn't know I could make someone cry so hard......those are the kind of people I don't mind giving breaks to if it is deserved and with me its a one time shot....if I ever catch her on the road again she is toast....I hope I made the right decision.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Training
Sorry ya'll been at training all this week...death by power point....I did get to run the EVOC driving course so that was fun!!! Anyway hope all is well with you all! Nothing to report!
Back to work in a few days
Back to work in a few days
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Just a small note
So the other night I had an 18 month old infant death...I really dont feel like talking about it too much guys. It was about as bad as it gets...heartbreaking. I'm just keepin this one for me guys sorry.
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