Best oxymoron I've ever read...but damn good "heads up" thinking/planning on your part!!
hey ya'll thanks for the replies, narrows my search. as for the above, hey i had two 8.1% hurricanes when i typed that maybe i meant "in case the inevitable happens soon." and i dont know how to quote multiple stuff in one post...
I've gotten good marks on me handling situations with words rather than brute force. my wife keeps saying i should go into counseling. i guess i'm lucky to still have the energy to keep up, the majority of contacts that go south are with juveniles and its usually kind of stupid to chase, fight and try to arrest a 16 year old who's high on coke and booze and also one of the stars of the local baseball team... all by yourself. That night sucked. But now (maybe its been like this for all time) all the teenagers look like freaking adults...the other night we had a girl soliciting prostitution that was 11 years old and looked no younger than 18..parents of course no where to be found and also from south of the border.
We do have some helo units down here. Border Patrol has maybe one or two in the area and DPS has one that i know of in the valley. I have never ever seen the DPS helo in action and we always call Border Patrol if we need assistance and their little birds kick butt. We also have an EMS helo a few miles from our station but they're shorthanded after losing a helo and 3 brave souls to bad weather off South Padre Island last year. My good friend was part of the recovery team. he was texting me updates and what my opinions of the cause of the crash were while enroute to help. I was spot on with the cause and unfortunately knew that they were all dead before they pulled the first body out.
As far as the suspect going to the hospital, he sure did at his insistance. Turns out he has one bad eye which i directly sprayed and elbowed for compliance. He complained about everything in the book. As the arresting officer it was my responsibility to take and standby with him at the hospital while he was medically cleared for incarceration. He was a totally different person, calling me sir, official, and joking with me and also apologizing for his actions. Too little too late if you ask me, but you will be amazed at the rapport you can get with someone you just fought and that tried to kill you, a lot of them say "you were only doing your job." Then I took him to the Border Patrol station to find out who he really was (they have the computerized fingerprint systems while we only have paper) only to find that he was giving me a false name. A repeated illegal alien with multiple border patrol arrests...he gets a detainer and a free ride back to Mexico after the US court system is done with him.
Just for information...we're looking into why only one officer went to back me up (lucky to be on duty on a seperate operation..not on shift) and that the officer that was on duty with me had finished booking in a prisoner five minutes before I called for help, disappeared while I was fighting and went on duty right after I logged him down as a prisoner (he already has a suspension for deriliction of duty).
