Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Prowlers beware!
Our crew has successfully apprehended 3 seperate sets of prowlers in the past few weeks!!! dominate!!!!! I hate those bastards. These dudes last night screwed up cause they stole credit cards which makes it a C class felony!!!! Yes!!!!! Score!!!! ONe of them sang like a bird and ratted out his buddy!!! Awesome!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
dry spell gone!
I tell ya I have been going through the worst dry spell concerning tickets/arrests etc. Seems like lately I cant' even find expired tabs on the road.
Well it was storm city USA and I felt like those guys on discovery channels "storm chasers". The worst part was a 60 foot tree falling on some power lines. I thought it was okay relatively until my sarge came by and said uh yeah those are live wires on the ground. Shweew glad he knows basic electrical stuff cause I sure dont!
Anyway I decided to embrace the huge rain and wind and just get out of the car.....started stopping cars for just about anything...sucked getting so rainy and poured on but it ended up being good. I caught three different suspended drivers tonight...yep got the ol hat trick yeeee haw.
Prostitution : Now I tell you what it is a legal nightmare to try and get convictions on these things let alone even arrests...you know it when you see it but its hard to prove. Me and my partner were sitting in our super-dirtbag area. Its riddles with prostitution and narcotic activity. We see a car see us and all of sudden drive past where they should have gone and continue into an abandoned industrial building parking lot.....thankfully we got a reason to stop the car and a 50 year old dude is in the car with a 19 year old female.
I contact the driver....he gives me his license which lists a local address just a little ways from where we are....you still live at blah blah blah ? Yeah......what are you doing down here? Well just giving her a ride home. Who is she? oh her name is blah blah blah....I go over to my partner who is contacting the girl and her name is not blah blah blah. Who is she to you sir your girlfriend....stutter....processes for lie...uh she is just a friend he says again. Suspicious that he is best friends with this girl yet doesnt even know her name.
The next 20 minutes consists of playing a defense attorney game trying to figure out how we can bust these people...we know what they are doing or just did and now it was a challenge trying to prove it......it involves alot of psychology and reverse psycology getting them to commit to their lies and silly stories/explanations and excuses then use that against them when they trip up. I eventually get him to admit to picking her up along the road and agreeing to pay money in exchange for sex. She partially admits to part of the story but in the end we had enough to charge her. I could have charged him but he finally came clean and relatively honest with me so I didn't want to punish him for that since he agreed to write a statement which helps the case. I still got an "arrest" from him for a suspended license and she got an "arrest" for prostitution but we didnt book em into jail cause our jurisdiction is kinda poor and we dont like to book people.
Who knows if it will hold up in court but it was a good experience and a learning one at that!
to be continued....
Well it was storm city USA and I felt like those guys on discovery channels "storm chasers". The worst part was a 60 foot tree falling on some power lines. I thought it was okay relatively until my sarge came by and said uh yeah those are live wires on the ground. Shweew glad he knows basic electrical stuff cause I sure dont!
Anyway I decided to embrace the huge rain and wind and just get out of the car.....started stopping cars for just about anything...sucked getting so rainy and poured on but it ended up being good. I caught three different suspended drivers tonight...yep got the ol hat trick yeeee haw.
Prostitution : Now I tell you what it is a legal nightmare to try and get convictions on these things let alone even arrests...you know it when you see it but its hard to prove. Me and my partner were sitting in our super-dirtbag area. Its riddles with prostitution and narcotic activity. We see a car see us and all of sudden drive past where they should have gone and continue into an abandoned industrial building parking lot.....thankfully we got a reason to stop the car and a 50 year old dude is in the car with a 19 year old female.
I contact the driver....he gives me his license which lists a local address just a little ways from where we are....you still live at blah blah blah ? Yeah......what are you doing down here? Well just giving her a ride home. Who is she? oh her name is blah blah blah....I go over to my partner who is contacting the girl and her name is not blah blah blah. Who is she to you sir your girlfriend....stutter....processes for lie...uh she is just a friend he says again. Suspicious that he is best friends with this girl yet doesnt even know her name.
The next 20 minutes consists of playing a defense attorney game trying to figure out how we can bust these people...we know what they are doing or just did and now it was a challenge trying to prove it......it involves alot of psychology and reverse psycology getting them to commit to their lies and silly stories/explanations and excuses then use that against them when they trip up. I eventually get him to admit to picking her up along the road and agreeing to pay money in exchange for sex. She partially admits to part of the story but in the end we had enough to charge her. I could have charged him but he finally came clean and relatively honest with me so I didn't want to punish him for that since he agreed to write a statement which helps the case. I still got an "arrest" from him for a suspended license and she got an "arrest" for prostitution but we didnt book em into jail cause our jurisdiction is kinda poor and we dont like to book people.
Who knows if it will hold up in court but it was a good experience and a learning one at that!
to be continued....
Monday, November 16, 2009
Hurray baton!
Very slow night last night.......we spent about 3 hours fussing around with a 9-1-1 cellular hangup call. The female on the line kept saying something about having a seizure so we spent alot of time trying to find her. It kept bouncing off different cell phone towers in the city....
After about 2 hours my partner located a car and the registered owner's name from the plate matched the name that was listed on the cell account....indeed we found her having a seizure in the car. The car was locked so out came the trusty ol ASP expandable metal baton. I've never broken a window before....I think I over swung a bit cause the thing exploded!! BOOM! Yeah baby. The dog inside the car did not like the excitement and got scared crapless and started attacking us so we improvised....the gal in the car had some crutches so we grabbed one of those and used it to pin the dog back while we worked. We were able to get the door unlocked and I was able to drag her out of the vehicle so the aid crew could get her.
Here is the rub....after feeling like total heros she was faking the whole thing in an attempt to get pain meds from the medics as she was a junkie. So stupid.
We found a bottle of vicodin on her that she had filled the previous day...15 pill prescription and there was only 1 left in the bottle...also in the car where phenerol patches...like a nicoderm patch but basically its super high strength pain medicine for things like oh I dunno terminal cancer..........so lame.
We got the dog out and took it into custody...poor little fella...I'm a dog lover so I hate it when they get left in the wake of trauma drama.....I bought the guy some canned food out of my own pocket as I wasnt sure if he had eaten in a few days as the gal is homeless and lives out of her car. He liked it but it was sad seing him in the kennel at the station every time I went there. I wish there was like a CPS for dogs so we could get it to a better home.
Psycho chick DV Call. Went and backed my partner up at a DV call...by the time I got there she was already in custody. She had apparently got real drunk and the boyfriend didnt want her in the house anymore so kicked her out.....this apparently was enough to make her punch him in the face several times...I love how all the DV classes I go to always presume the woman to be the innocent victim in all of these instances....I can honestly say I've found it to be at least 50/50 guys and girls at fault yet every dv class I've been to always uses verbage like "when HE goes to jail" "when SHE is hit by the man" its one of my pet peaves. She was a peach all the way to the jail...I could instantly tell she was very manipulative when talking to her. I dont have patience for those people and I told her that I was done listening to her beligerant self and the quiet treatment drove her nuts.......I was escorting her to the jail and when you do that you hold them by the arm...A to keep control of them and B to make sure they dont fall on their face in cuffs....I explained the latter to her and she kept saying quit MANHANDLING ME she then proceeded to kick at me and try and twist away from my grasp and she started to rear up like she was going to spit on me....hell no!!!!!! I did some creative HYUKFORKFU (slang for kung fu ninja moves) on her and pinned her up against the jail wall in the sally port....out of nowhere this ninja style custody officer chick came out and grabbed her like white on rice and she got some alone time in the rubber room. Its so funny how a 40 year old can have the mentality of a 5 year old. It was like she was throwing a fit in there a total tantrum meltdown. How do people get this way?
After about 2 hours my partner located a car and the registered owner's name from the plate matched the name that was listed on the cell account....indeed we found her having a seizure in the car. The car was locked so out came the trusty ol ASP expandable metal baton. I've never broken a window before....I think I over swung a bit cause the thing exploded!! BOOM! Yeah baby. The dog inside the car did not like the excitement and got scared crapless and started attacking us so we improvised....the gal in the car had some crutches so we grabbed one of those and used it to pin the dog back while we worked. We were able to get the door unlocked and I was able to drag her out of the vehicle so the aid crew could get her.
Here is the rub....after feeling like total heros she was faking the whole thing in an attempt to get pain meds from the medics as she was a junkie. So stupid.
We found a bottle of vicodin on her that she had filled the previous day...15 pill prescription and there was only 1 left in the bottle...also in the car where phenerol patches...like a nicoderm patch but basically its super high strength pain medicine for things like oh I dunno terminal cancer..........so lame.
We got the dog out and took it into custody...poor little fella...I'm a dog lover so I hate it when they get left in the wake of trauma drama.....I bought the guy some canned food out of my own pocket as I wasnt sure if he had eaten in a few days as the gal is homeless and lives out of her car. He liked it but it was sad seing him in the kennel at the station every time I went there. I wish there was like a CPS for dogs so we could get it to a better home.
Psycho chick DV Call. Went and backed my partner up at a DV call...by the time I got there she was already in custody. She had apparently got real drunk and the boyfriend didnt want her in the house anymore so kicked her out.....this apparently was enough to make her punch him in the face several times...I love how all the DV classes I go to always presume the woman to be the innocent victim in all of these instances....I can honestly say I've found it to be at least 50/50 guys and girls at fault yet every dv class I've been to always uses verbage like "when HE goes to jail" "when SHE is hit by the man" its one of my pet peaves. She was a peach all the way to the jail...I could instantly tell she was very manipulative when talking to her. I dont have patience for those people and I told her that I was done listening to her beligerant self and the quiet treatment drove her nuts.......I was escorting her to the jail and when you do that you hold them by the arm...A to keep control of them and B to make sure they dont fall on their face in cuffs....I explained the latter to her and she kept saying quit MANHANDLING ME she then proceeded to kick at me and try and twist away from my grasp and she started to rear up like she was going to spit on me....hell no!!!!!! I did some creative HYUKFORKFU (slang for kung fu ninja moves) on her and pinned her up against the jail wall in the sally port....out of nowhere this ninja style custody officer chick came out and grabbed her like white on rice and she got some alone time in the rubber room. Its so funny how a 40 year old can have the mentality of a 5 year old. It was like she was throwing a fit in there a total tantrum meltdown. How do people get this way?
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Real Police Work!
The guys got into a fat pursuit last night. Suicidal female who slit her wrists and then ran from us in her car all around the city then got on a major freeway and went about 10 miles...her car just about blew up halfway into it as her radiator couldnt handle the stress! OUr cars did just fine! God bless ye ol patrol cars and their awesomeness. Get to the scene and she is bleeding everywhere from her wrists the inside of her car looked like something out of a freddy kruger film. Get her out of the car and she is chewing on something...get her to spit it out and she expells about 50 RX pills from her mouth...YUK
CAR PROWLERS!....I hate car prowlers...no I loath them. Stupid bastards cant buy their own stuff so they have to reek havok on others...dumb bastards. Get a hot car prowl in progress....911 caller sees the suspect in her vehicle...get in the area and set up containment...in comes the hero...a valiant german shepard K-9 woooot!!!!! They ended up hunkering down in some woods which is exactly what you need to happen so their scent just soaks up the ground and eminates like hot steam on a cold day. They say a footprint on a fresh suspect emits an odor so strong its like fresh cut grass to you and I!!!!! That is just awesome....doggy finds them and ends up with a good bite on the suspect causing some cool injuries and bleeding...if you ask me serves em right....dont run from the POLICE! You cant outrun Motorolla and a kick ass dog! Amen!
CAR PROWLERS!....I hate car prowlers...no I loath them. Stupid bastards cant buy their own stuff so they have to reek havok on others...dumb bastards. Get a hot car prowl in progress....911 caller sees the suspect in her vehicle...get in the area and set up containment...in comes the hero...a valiant german shepard K-9 woooot!!!!! They ended up hunkering down in some woods which is exactly what you need to happen so their scent just soaks up the ground and eminates like hot steam on a cold day. They say a footprint on a fresh suspect emits an odor so strong its like fresh cut grass to you and I!!!!! That is just awesome....doggy finds them and ends up with a good bite on the suspect causing some cool injuries and bleeding...if you ask me serves em right....dont run from the POLICE! You cant outrun Motorolla and a kick ass dog! Amen!
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