If it matters to anyone...dispatch told me last night when I went in there that it only took 13 minutes to get a detective there. Yes, he was armed.

I don't why I get ever get sucked into these threads...There is inevitably the one or two persons who have that unfortunate run of bad luck when it comes to experiences with the cops. I am sure they were unfairly targeted and their own actions had absolutely no bearing on what happened. I have to say that the majority of criminals I have dealt with (and believe me, there has been every kind you can imagine in 23 years) took some responsiblity for their actions. I'll tell you something else, if I drive up and someone starts with being an A$$ to me, I might just drive off too if he/she doesn't kennel up. Tell you a story about that, once upon a time a deputy went to a call for a noise disturbance. When he got there, the guy who called it in became an ass and refused to come to the door. He in fact yelled at the deputy to "f-off, you got a warrant?". Well, the deputy wasn't willing to spend anymore time on an a$$ like that and went back to his car. As he was sitting getting ready to drive off, Mr. Sunshine decides he now needs the police and approaches the partol car and yells that he wants to talk to him. The deputy rolls the window down ever so slightly and replies "you got a warrant?" and drives away.

There is a kind of honor and mutual respect even, if you will, between hard core cons and the cops. I mean they know they are bad and what they are, but they know we have a job in catching them. It's rarely personal. It's only the punks on both sides that are the exceptions (cops and crooks both) . The less able one is to take any repsonsibility for anything they do, because, "BY GOD, the laws are BS" , the more likely they will be unhappy when that authority figure holds them accountable.

You don't like society's laws?

The solution is abide by them (the big ones that is) or accept that you WILL be held accountable at some point. Here's an example-

As you can imagine, some men are real control freaks with their significant others. This often evolves into control of who she talks to, where she can go, her household tasks, and very often every aspect of her life. It is very close to human bondage (the bad kind).

Now you get a guy like me that finally gets called because the lid finally blows and she or someone calls us. The first thing that happens is the guy usually tries to get us to agree she is really just emotional and out of control and he was just trying to "calm things down" when he hit her. When that doesn't work, it often gets ugly when he realizes that he can't control it now and that we have stepped in and his freedom and ability to manipulate is taken away.

This is just one of the services we provide!! lol.... And guess what? I'll bet when he tells the story later, he'll naturally spin it to where he is the victim and the stupid cops just took her side. You know what? I 'll bet I can tell you my side on any given situation and my spin will always make it sound like I am a victim.

And something else you should know, even after 23 years of the worst of people and people at their worst, I still like folks in general.

I dont whine because people in general lie to us, disrespect us, and are extremely self centered. I knew that coming into the job. The good stuff is the people you work with, the humor in all the wierd stuff you see and deal with, and getting to help the folks who are truly victims. I hope that this helps.....