Some time ago Google recommend I toss this blog onto my list. It’s a blog written by a cop. I find it interesting from time to time. Today especially.

Reference this particular post.

I’ve spent the last couple of years working dope and violent street crime in some of the crappiest parts of my city. During that time my team and I have knocked doors off hinges during entries, busted out car windows during vehicle assaults, shot dogs, and planted people on the ground hard. However we never received a single internal affairs complaint or been threatened with a lawsuit during that time. I guess if you are a robber or a drug dealer, you understand how the game works and you take your lumps as part of doing business.

I’ve been back on the bike patrol for less than a month and I’ve already been threated with IA investigations and a lawsuit twice for barely putting my hands on someone.

The story continues with him getting a drunk guy off the road as he hails down a cab. That’s good stuff, and an arrest for drunk in public or some such would have been very prudent in such a situation, but he didn’t bother with that. He continues:

As I started to bike off, he stepped back in the street and yelled, “Fuck you asshole!” Well that did it. I came back around and got in his face.

Not being an officer of the law, and having this same epitaph screamed at me a few times in my life, I’d just shrug and keep on going. Not him.

I told him that he was under arrest and to put his hands behind his back. He just stood there with a smirk on his face and said I couldn’t arrest him. One judo hip toss later, he was laying on his face while I cuffed him.

Call me crazy, many have, but this isn’t the best story to be telling when you’re complaining about lawsuits and IA investigations. This doesn’t sound like a matter of public safety, it’s just ego.

And then:

Once we got to the jail, he wouldn’t sit on the bench while we waited to have him processed. I told him that if he didn’t sit down, I was going to force him to. He said, “I think I will just keep standing. Thank you very much.”

One jugular notch pressure point later and he was sitting on his butt coughing.

He’s not making a very good case for himself here.

Of course, this is the same blogger that lamented that the police don’t have enough funding or resources to properly handle murder and rape cases, actual violent crimes. Then goes on to explain that in the narcotics unit they have all the resources they need. You know, for busting people doing drugs.

Then again, given that the blogger uses a picture of Denzel Washington from the movie Training Day as his profile icon I really shouldn’t be surprised. Not sure he got the point of that movie.

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