Darwin Wins!

Darwin finally won one!



I'm just glad the bad guy pointed the gun in the right direction and not at an Officer.

Standards

Sean posted his own thoughts in response to Roanoke Cop's piece.

Less than a year cut loose and I've already been called every name in the book and been reviewed by Internal Affairs. Lucky for me the town I work in stands by their officers. Everything I did was justified and I was quite nice in my actions; but, people will raise a stink because they think they are the exception: deal with it or look for other employment.

Updates

I've been slacking in the updates department (among many other departments). I got a message a long time ago about adding Lagniappes's Lair. Then I got distracted by shiny things and didn't get things updated. So I'm sorry about the delay, the link is long overdue but he's finally added to the sidebar.
Also, somehow in the last month I've discovered Sean's blog I Aim to Misbehave so he's also added under Cop blogs.
So the long overdue updates are done... I hope.

Bad Math

A mom is angry at me now: Take a road that is barely lit, a bicycle that only has the peddles as the rear reflectors, a kid that is wearing dark clothing, and that it is the first heavy snow fall of the season. Now mix in a car that is doing about 40 mph on a 45 mph road... oh and the kid doesn't look before he crosses the street. All that equals a recipe for disaster. So after the kid bounces off the windshield and lands on the pavement other people start first aid. I finally get there (MOVE TO THE RIGHT WHEN AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE IS BEHIND YOU!!!) the kid is talking and tells me his side of it. Mom shows up and is hysterical. The kid calms mom down as he's on the pavement bleeding. They go off to the hospital and I talk with the driver and a witness.
I also recall earlier in the night seeing a kid on a bicycle crossing the highway (we are on a frontage road) in about the same spot but the kid was so far ahead of me on the highway that by the time I get there he is gone in the woods.
So I combine all the facts that I am given and I figure its the kids fault.
A few days later Mom calls me to ask me a few questions which I politely answer. Mom then goes off about the shabby investigation I did and how the other driver should have been arrested for DUI (I did HGN just to be sure: stone cold sober). Mom assures me I will hear about it from my chain of command and from her lawyer. Oh, and her cousin is the former chief of police in this town but he hasn't heard of me (he was here three or four years ago, I've been here two years... go figure).
Oh well. Later that shift I had the displeasure of going to investigate a ten year old and his friend sexually assault twelve and fourteen year old girls.