I had guy run from my susp. vehicle stop the other night. Left his 3 y.o. in the car with a guy the kid didn't know.
I knew the driver/loser/dad by sight. He ran because he had a piddly 500 buck misdemeanor warrant, for which I would never have booked him because I then would have had to deal with getting the kid back to mom. Who knows where she's out getting high.
BTW, the other guy I've met once before. He has been sht by our local Sheriff's dept, (3x during one incident) and did time for assaulting Police with a weapon. That's called assault 2 here and you don't do the 35 months in prison he did without actually getting sentenced to closer to 5 years.
Just pushing back the tide here.
We also have row of apartments, behind our Pct no less, with multiple "refugees" from New Orleans. If I know your name and date of birth within a week and half of you moving to my area, you have serious life problems.
I was accused of being predjudiced against people from New Orleans of all things. Jeez!
I'd trade one "refugee" for another 1,000 illegals from Mexico.
I did have some nice cosmic justice a couple of weeks ago though. The dept. sent a guy from our video unit out to try and get some video of officers, in this case me, handling calls.
I roll by some local bangers that I know and they ask "who's the guy with the camera." I said, "if you want to be on COPS, start runnin."
Apparently they thought I was serious because not a minute later I'm about 3-4 blocks away and they try to strong arm rob this guy in a van. The desciption is so good that after dispatch broadcasts the call I name 3-4 of them and say I'm just saw them and will be contacting them in about 30 seconds.
I roll up on them, 7 of them now, and order them all onto the hod of my car. Of course, 6 comply and one decides to start arguing and not comply.
He's screaming about being harassed by the Police and how he's already suing my dept.
I attempt to escort him to the hood of my car and he starts trying to pull away. I've got about 80 lbs on him and I am able to control him easily while watching the others, who are on their knees as ordered.
Dude starts banging his own head on the hood (2x) and yelling about his "payday is just getting bigger." Of course his loser "mom", more like a turd delivery system, is across the street and she has to try and get into the action and interfere.
The upshot is everything worked out fine and the whole thing was on video, from me whipping my head around towards him when he started yelling at me, to me escorting him to the car and telling him nicely to calm down, to his slamming his own head on the car and talking about his "payday" increasing.
It's funny seeing it on video. I got to see how calm I look on the outside, while churning the possibilities through my stomach at the same time. I never saw myself on video before. It was kinda cool.
Please see my tag line as I find it the most appropriate phrase for my line of work.
I could go on and on and on. And I'm a rookie for god's sake.
excellent reporting.
I've had the same scenario at least five times....sometimes alone or not. Hilltop Crips and Eastside Piru each time. I doubt this will be the last time you see that
I get angry only when these stories involve children........
Outstanding!!
I cant do your job, I would have slammed the idiot against the car hood.
Excellent post. Thank You for your service to your community.
I would have loved to see that. Video proof is so nice to have. :-)
Good job.
The adult losers in the main story need to be cleansed from the gene pool.