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Running in the Wind

New Cars

 

The 66 new Ford FIUs the city purchased have yet to be sent to the precincts.

Our MDTS are from 2004. The city can no longer purchase them from the company, so Fleet Services take the tablets from 2013 and 2015 FIUs and the handful of Impalas set to be retired. The Vic is being kept until I retire. 

Then, the fuel sensors do not recognize the city fuel pumps. The department purchased the wrong ones. It is a $1000 per unit mistake. The city is looking for individual key sensors for each unit, but since cars are not assigned to officers, the keys are expected to disappear. 

 

 

 

 

Counting Blessings

 

I had court yesterday morning at 0910 hours. 

My trial for this morning was cancelled. 

 

 

Empty

 

 

 

 

Rings of Glass

 

 

 

Model 480K

The Vic's Odometer

 

 

 

 

Prosecutions

 

Per their union, there were 170 reported assaults versus bus drivers in the Pond in 2022. 

“I am not aware of any of those going to a prosecution on an assault charge. As far as I know, the DA's office has either dropped the charges or settled on a plea deal with a misdemeanor of 'interfering with public transportation,'” said one of the union's VPs. 

 

 

Assault Cases

 

 

Per the DA’s office, law enforcement, in the Pond, referred the following misdemeanor assault cases by year:

2016 - 432
2017 - 464
2018 - 459
2019 - 476
2020 - 444
2021 - 410
2022 - 368

 

Criminal Trespass

 

 

Over the last few years, law enforcement referred the following trespass cases by year:

2016 - 1100
2017 - 1309
2018 - 1551
2019 - 1407
2020 - 783
2021 - 453
2022 - 577

*The lowest level of criminal trespass is a bread and butter Downtown call.