Posted by: Blue
Last night, our first call was at one of the hospitals in our district. A psych patient had barricaded himself at the end of the hallway and armed himself with a chair and a pillowcase with two billiard balls inside.
He was an ex-C.O. and had gotten into coke and meth, ruining his career, his marriage, his family and his brain.
We tried for about two minutes to convince him to drop the weapon before I pulled the trigger on the X2 and gave him a 5 second ride. He tensed and the other three officers moved-in. He was brought to the ground safely, disarmed and handcuffed. He was uninjured and the nurses were able to sedate him.
I much prefer the Taser to my other intermediate weapon options when it comes to certain scenarios like this. There are fewer chances of serious injury both to the subject and to the officers.
Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Thursday, February 27, 2014
MHA
Posted by: Blue
The bi-polar patient we picked up two nights ago was in his manic stage.
He told my partner we had to kill Gretzky.
He also told the nurse he was going to climb down his v-neck, crawl up his crack and come out behind him to straighten-out his spine.
Then he threatened to rip my partner's head off with his bare hands and kick it around like a soccer ball.
It took 3 doses of Valium to put him out.
The bi-polar patient we picked up two nights ago was in his manic stage.
He told my partner we had to kill Gretzky.
He also told the nurse he was going to climb down his v-neck, crawl up his crack and come out behind him to straighten-out his spine.
Then he threatened to rip my partner's head off with his bare hands and kick it around like a soccer ball.
It took 3 doses of Valium to put him out.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Grow-Op
Posted by: Blue
Today we assisted our grow-op unit with a warrant execution.
The bust netted over 500 plants in various stages. It had a street value of over half a million dollars.
Today we assisted our grow-op unit with a warrant execution.
The bust netted over 500 plants in various stages. It had a street value of over half a million dollars.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Court
Posted by: Blue
Today, JT had court on a 4 year old drug arrest.
He testified for half an hour and was dismissed. This was the third trial date that had been set. Apparently the accused kept firing his lawyers.
Today, JT had court on a 4 year old drug arrest.
He testified for half an hour and was dismissed. This was the third trial date that had been set. Apparently the accused kept firing his lawyers.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Drugs
Posted by: Blue
The drug trade in our city is likely similar to any other metropolitan area.
"Everyone" has pot. Some people have meth or crack. A few have IV drugs like heroin or morphine. Coke comes and goes in popularity and supply abundance. Ecstasy and other similar pills are generally limited to suburban kids who think that nothing can harm them. Prescription drug abuse and trafficking is a whole other ball of wax that is barely ever investigated. Everything starts at the top with organized crime; gangs.
Being high isn't a crime. Possession is. There are two levels of possession. Personal use (plain old Possession of a Controlled Substance) and then there's Possession for the Purpose (dealing/trafficking). It is also criminal to manufacture controlled substances (growing marijuana or running a meth lab etc.).
Many a time has a police officer taken away a few grams of pot and flushed it or ground it into the mud to dispose of it rather than charge someone with possession. It's not worth the paperwork. The judges are lenient, especially with pot or small amounts of harder drugs. The courts are tied up enough with substantial trafficking charges for more serious substances.
Most people think of Possession as a very weak charge that police use when they are being "dictatorial" and "fascist".
The truth is, we don't care about pot. We care about lives. The truth, is that we see a dark, violent, filthy, dirty, horrible shadow that is cast over the drug trade. The money to be made in drugs means that people are willing to be violent to protect their crop, or their stash, or their payments.
The plain and simple truth, is that drugs = money. Money = guns and other weapons. Weapons = violence. Violence = death.
To most, the drug trade is a movie concept. There's always some kind of South American Cartel Type in a custom suit with an Escalade and a huge villa. He's the bad guy. Police see the other side. The dregs. The end result. The broken lives, the shattered people.
We see the dumb kid who thought he could make some extra money by running dope to different addresses get stomped out to within inches of his life because he was robbed of a big stash of meth. Ironically, it wasn't his robbers that put the boots to him, it was his employers. He may never walk again and he'll be eating through a straw for months, but the dealers sure made their point clear to everyone else on the payroll.
We see the broken marriages. The wife who is choked to death because her husband is coked-out and doesn't know what he's doing. Their 3 children will end up in the sickening foster care system. Hopefully one or two of them will survive it without getting hooked on alcohol or drugs themselves.
We see the grow-op wars between rival gangs. The houses that are burnt to the ground with 4 people inside or shot up with automatic weapons because they are growing pot on someone else's territory.
We see the car wrecks that kill and maim innocent people because someone chose to drive while high. If there are any survivors of the wreck, statistics say it will be the impaired driver. Often he'll say something like "It's not like I was drunk. Weed enhances your observations."
We see the hooker who, at 13 years old is so desperate for another hit of meth that she sells her body to anyone and everyone. We respond to the rape call when she doesn't get paid. We arrest the suspect if we can find him. We charge and process him. We watch him get released from the charges when the victim doesn't show up in court. Sometimes because she is too high to remember what day it is. Sometimes because she is in the hospital after a more violent rape. Sometimes because she has been found dead and mutilated in a dumpster. A child, innocence shattered and then discarded like trash.
Drugs in and of themselves are only really harmful to the person taking them (except for the meth labs that explode).
It's all the fallout that police see that we really hate and want to stop.
The drug trade in our city is likely similar to any other metropolitan area.
"Everyone" has pot. Some people have meth or crack. A few have IV drugs like heroin or morphine. Coke comes and goes in popularity and supply abundance. Ecstasy and other similar pills are generally limited to suburban kids who think that nothing can harm them. Prescription drug abuse and trafficking is a whole other ball of wax that is barely ever investigated. Everything starts at the top with organized crime; gangs.
Being high isn't a crime. Possession is. There are two levels of possession. Personal use (plain old Possession of a Controlled Substance) and then there's Possession for the Purpose (dealing/trafficking). It is also criminal to manufacture controlled substances (growing marijuana or running a meth lab etc.).
Many a time has a police officer taken away a few grams of pot and flushed it or ground it into the mud to dispose of it rather than charge someone with possession. It's not worth the paperwork. The judges are lenient, especially with pot or small amounts of harder drugs. The courts are tied up enough with substantial trafficking charges for more serious substances.
Most people think of Possession as a very weak charge that police use when they are being "dictatorial" and "fascist".
The truth is, we don't care about pot. We care about lives. The truth, is that we see a dark, violent, filthy, dirty, horrible shadow that is cast over the drug trade. The money to be made in drugs means that people are willing to be violent to protect their crop, or their stash, or their payments.
The plain and simple truth, is that drugs = money. Money = guns and other weapons. Weapons = violence. Violence = death.
To most, the drug trade is a movie concept. There's always some kind of South American Cartel Type in a custom suit with an Escalade and a huge villa. He's the bad guy. Police see the other side. The dregs. The end result. The broken lives, the shattered people.
We see the dumb kid who thought he could make some extra money by running dope to different addresses get stomped out to within inches of his life because he was robbed of a big stash of meth. Ironically, it wasn't his robbers that put the boots to him, it was his employers. He may never walk again and he'll be eating through a straw for months, but the dealers sure made their point clear to everyone else on the payroll.
We see the broken marriages. The wife who is choked to death because her husband is coked-out and doesn't know what he's doing. Their 3 children will end up in the sickening foster care system. Hopefully one or two of them will survive it without getting hooked on alcohol or drugs themselves.
We see the grow-op wars between rival gangs. The houses that are burnt to the ground with 4 people inside or shot up with automatic weapons because they are growing pot on someone else's territory.
We see the car wrecks that kill and maim innocent people because someone chose to drive while high. If there are any survivors of the wreck, statistics say it will be the impaired driver. Often he'll say something like "It's not like I was drunk. Weed enhances your observations."
We see the hooker who, at 13 years old is so desperate for another hit of meth that she sells her body to anyone and everyone. We respond to the rape call when she doesn't get paid. We arrest the suspect if we can find him. We charge and process him. We watch him get released from the charges when the victim doesn't show up in court. Sometimes because she is too high to remember what day it is. Sometimes because she is in the hospital after a more violent rape. Sometimes because she has been found dead and mutilated in a dumpster. A child, innocence shattered and then discarded like trash.
Drugs in and of themselves are only really harmful to the person taking them (except for the meth labs that explode).
It's all the fallout that police see that we really hate and want to stop.
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