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Consequences

 

In the pond, if a mope smashes out a car window and value of the window is less than $1000, he an be arrested, but the officer cannot take him to jail. The officer can issue a criminal summons and release the mope. The mope can then walk to the next car window and smash it out. The mope can still be arrested, but not take to jail. As long as the mope does not break more than $1000 damage to a single victim, he can repeat the process.

 

 

When You Defunding the Police: The Grand Theft Auto Edition

 

 

In September  903 cars were stolen in the city.

In August, 805 cars were stolen. 

 In 2020, the night number of cars stolen in month was 658.

 

 

Bleeding Out

 

Per a member of the city council, the department is losing twelve officers a month to retirement and resignations.

 

 

The Hunt

 

As the days darken, the congregation of crows downtown grows, but the bridgehead flat lot is lined with dozens of rats fed from the camps under and around the off-ramp and on-ramps of the bridge. A hawk is feeding on one behind my prowler. His falconer, paid to harass the crows, asks me not move, but his hawk will have none of him. It sees the rats. The crows can wait.  For ten minutes, the bird flies from ramp to ramp, perched on the rail, lying in wait, ignoring the falconer's attempt to call it back and continue the crow hunt.

 

 

 

 

Not Theft

 

If you can't pay your bar tab, and use your phone as collateral, you cannot later file a theft report claiming the bartender stole your phone from you. 

 

 

Above the Donut Shop

 

At a No-tell,  above the donut shop, 1066, his trainee,  and I checking on Don. Before we knock, We can hear him screaming at himself at the speed of a blender. 

Don won’t open the door, so we talk to him through it. 

When asked what his diagnosis is? He replies, “Alphabet Soup.” 

Tonight, Don is raging against his Skynet Slumlord and insists “women are evil.” On his door, he has written in Sharpie that women are “whores” and “ignorant cunts.” When asked for the source of his anger, Don shouts he is ashamed his mother circumcised him 60 years ago. 

 

 

Going Back to Old School

 

A Day Shift Sergeant is requiring trainees on his his shift to do three traffic stops a day. He doesn't care if they are warnings or cites. He wants new officers to learn how to talk to people. 

 

 

A Few Glances at Tonight's Mostly Peaceful Protest

 

 

 

 

Conservatively, the protest caused about $500,000 in damages. I would not be surprised if the real total topped a million.

 

 

 

September Seperations

 

Twelve officers left the department last month.

 

Fairness

 

On 10th before Ten, El Cid and I are sent to a wreck.

A speeding west bound car ran a red hit  a north bound car and mail box and a parking meter. The impact launched the mail box and the parking meter into a building, cratering the wall.

Downtown is deserted, so no peds were struck. The speeding ca's driver and passenger have cuts and bruises from broken glass and the air bags, but both cars' occupants  can walk away.  

The speeding driver has no license or insurance. Despite a neutral witness's statement, she insists the other driver is at fault. When I ask why she doesn't have insurance, she claims she she just bought the car and no one told her she had to have insurance right away. 

She leaves decrying the unfairness of the older driver, 84 years old, being able to drive away while her totaled car is towed.