Fun cop stories for you to live vicariously through...
My interesting story last night: Right at the beginning of the shift, I got to arrest the bank robber's brother. Some State Troopers went there to interview him and they found out he had a warrant.
Exciting? No, of course not...that's not the big story.
We got a broadcast of a reported reckless and possible intoxicated driver. I get out on the road he's reported to be on and wait for him to come by. As I'm sitting there, it's reported that he just collided with two cars at an intersection a mile away from where I was waiting.
I get up to the scene, the suspect's truck is in the ditch and the two cars he swideswiped were pulled over. Several witnesses were all parked on the side of the road, so pulling up I wasn't sure exactly how many cars had been hit (didn't know if a chain reaction had started or cars got pushed into each other).
This all happened in an area that's right where county and city jurisdiction meet, so the city guys say "The collision happened in county and he came to a rest in city; we'll handle the DUI if you want to do the accident." I was like, "Okay, sure." I start filling out the accident report and the city cops wait with the guy on the rescue squad (drunk complained 'his head hurt'). A couple minutes later, one of them comes over and says their supervisor told them they can't do the DUI, the county attorney will kick it. So I said,"No big deal. I can follow up the DUI at the hospital after I finish the accident info."
I run the guy's record on my computer on my way to the hospital: 4 DUI convictions since 1998 (conveniently the year he turned 18), 2 willful reckless and a leaving the scene (translation: three other DUIs, not charged), his last DUI 2 years ago earned him a 15-year license revocation and he had a driving under suspension and 2 driving under revocation convictions.
So my first words when I walked in the ER were "When are you going to release him so I can take him to jail?" They say he's pretty drunk, blah, blah, blah. I tell them we have drunk people in jail all the time, I just want to make sure he's not broken. I read my implied consent paperwork and when they draw blood for the medical, he refuses to let them do an evidentiary draw (oh, well, yet another charge for him). By this time two hours had passed since the accident and who knows how long he had been driving before that.
The medical draw gets tested anyway, so the doc comes in and says the reading was .533g of alcohol per 100ml of blood. That means this asshole had to be pushing .60 when he was behind the wheel. Son of a bitch actually had blood in his alcohol system.
Hearing that I thought "Hmm, maybe we do care how drunk he is...the jail won't accept him at that level." So another three hours later, doc decides he's had enough time to dry out a bit to release him to the jail.
If this guy doesn't get prison time, I will have lost what little faith I have left in our judges.
Exciting? No, of course not...that's not the big story.
We got a broadcast of a reported reckless and possible intoxicated driver. I get out on the road he's reported to be on and wait for him to come by. As I'm sitting there, it's reported that he just collided with two cars at an intersection a mile away from where I was waiting.
I get up to the scene, the suspect's truck is in the ditch and the two cars he swideswiped were pulled over. Several witnesses were all parked on the side of the road, so pulling up I wasn't sure exactly how many cars had been hit (didn't know if a chain reaction had started or cars got pushed into each other).
This all happened in an area that's right where county and city jurisdiction meet, so the city guys say "The collision happened in county and he came to a rest in city; we'll handle the DUI if you want to do the accident." I was like, "Okay, sure." I start filling out the accident report and the city cops wait with the guy on the rescue squad (drunk complained 'his head hurt'). A couple minutes later, one of them comes over and says their supervisor told them they can't do the DUI, the county attorney will kick it. So I said,"No big deal. I can follow up the DUI at the hospital after I finish the accident info."
I run the guy's record on my computer on my way to the hospital: 4 DUI convictions since 1998 (conveniently the year he turned 18), 2 willful reckless and a leaving the scene (translation: three other DUIs, not charged), his last DUI 2 years ago earned him a 15-year license revocation and he had a driving under suspension and 2 driving under revocation convictions.
So my first words when I walked in the ER were "When are you going to release him so I can take him to jail?" They say he's pretty drunk, blah, blah, blah. I tell them we have drunk people in jail all the time, I just want to make sure he's not broken. I read my implied consent paperwork and when they draw blood for the medical, he refuses to let them do an evidentiary draw (oh, well, yet another charge for him). By this time two hours had passed since the accident and who knows how long he had been driving before that.
The medical draw gets tested anyway, so the doc comes in and says the reading was .533g of alcohol per 100ml of blood. That means this asshole had to be pushing .60 when he was behind the wheel. Son of a bitch actually had blood in his alcohol system.
Hearing that I thought "Hmm, maybe we do care how drunk he is...the jail won't accept him at that level." So another three hours later, doc decides he's had enough time to dry out a bit to release him to the jail.
If this guy doesn't get prison time, I will have lost what little faith I have left in our judges.