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Story of the week…

November 18th 1998 Posted to Stories

This week’s story of the every other week comes straight from watching the news.

Nearby where I work, a 15-year old girl is missing for several days and then is found dead along a roadside.

An unfamiliar adult in broad daylight grabs another young girl in broad daylight at a mini mall, but she manages to free herself and escape abduction.

A young girl in the same neighborhood reports being followed by a subject in a car who followed her and pulled alongside her several times until she began to run and summoned help from a gardener who was working nearby.

A suspect is arrested down in southern California after stabbing a woman, and then confesses to killing a young boy who had been reported missing in Northern California.

A man enters a woman’s car, hides in the rear seat, and upon her return he forces her to drive to a rural area where he brutally rapes her.

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Holiday Depression & Domestic Violence

November 03rd 1998 Posted to Stories

Holiday Depression & Domestic Violence

Every year it seems to get worse. When I first became a cop, I was a bit surprised to see what the holidays do to some people. While most people are in a happy holiday mood, cooking, shopping, wrapping presents, others are in a deep depression.

The holidays bring depression to a lot of people for different reasons. Some are depressed because they are alone, some because they lost their loved ones, some because they are having marital or family problems, and some due to financial or job related problems. But the common thread here is that holiday depression usually ends up in violence, family or domestic disputes, or suicide.

Not a happy topic to talk about, but a reality. The holidays seem to push some people over the edge. Calls of domestic violence and suicide rates always increase over the holiday period. I remember my first year as a police officer.
On a Thanksgiving morning at 6 a.m., I was dispatched to a call of a female chasing a male around the street with a butcher knife. They had gotten into a physical altercation over an argument about how to carve a turkey. Luckily, only the turkey got carved.

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