Raindogblue

Off, Out, and Away

 

 

In the end, the better than going home, whole and on time, is going home, leaving the gun and badge in the locker, and going on vacation, and learning what is to be human again, to see the glass, not for the drips of murk, but as a vessel of the blessings that bubble and flow despite your bad days and limited vision, that carry you and hold you above the morass and make all the small things possible, so you are sane and whole and can dive in to the dark waters again.

 

  

 

In-Service

 

Taser Recert

 

Patrol Tactics:

Officer/Citizen Rescues using patrol cars in a scenario village.

How to carry people

How to place people in cars or trunks

Threat coverage.

Down officer scenarios

 

Defensive Tactics: 

Step asides

How to fall

Ground kicks

How to get off the ground

Shooting from the ground

The scenario box

Obstacle course.

 

Range:

7 yard shooting

Speed shooting

Malfunction drills with shooting

Combat shooting course. 

 

CPR / First Aid

It did not go like this.

 

 

 

Taser: Firmware

 

 

At Inservice, the department replaced

our batteries and the firmware. Now,

if the trigger is depressed, the weapon

will cycle for a maximum of 5 seconds.

 

 

 

 

 

36

 

The department only has 36

Crown Vics left. The remaining

cars will be replaced in a year.

 

 

 

 

From Straight Pipe

 

 

 

 

 

Detox

 

Last night, detox was closed.

There wasn't enough staff

to run the tank.

 

 

Red

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good

 

 

At traffic court, the judge dismissed

the motorist case after the officer

failed to show.

 

The motorist said, "Am I good?

 

The judge said, "I don't know about that,

but you are free to go."

 

 

Yellow

 

 

 

 

 

In Old Town

 

In Old Town, in the Alphabet, I spot a man on a bike

pulling a flat trailer hold his sound system: sub-woofer,

speakers, receiver and deck. The first trailer is connected

to a second. It has an old, red lawn mower engine running

and hooked to an extension card to power the first cart.

 The second trailer is pulling a third: with a pile

of the rest of the man's property.