“Todd”

The papers and media report that crime is down at its lowest rate in years. The president says its due to his accomplishments and the efforts of intense law enforcement efforts. Part of this is true, the intense efforts of law enforcement. Is crime really down? Ask a cop in your city. If crime really is down good for you. But it could just be a smokescreen too. Crime could be down on paper but not down on the streets. For the real story on why a lot of cities show a decline in crime see the article in our archives about how some crimes are reported to the DOJ. Call a dog a frog and you have fewer dogs reported running around. Call an airplane crash a train wreck and you have fewer reported plane crashes. You get the drift. I already got my frustrations out in the previous article “Is crime really down” so I wont go into that now.

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Basic training at the academy…If an officer gets into a hostage situation, or a life threatening situation presents itself unexpectedly, the officer calls his partner by a code name and the other officer immediately knows there is a life-threatening situation happening.

Example, if I make a car stop at 2:00am with my partner Walter, and I walk up to the drivers window of a car I stopped for weaving, I would probably be expecting the driver to be drunk. Although we are trained to not let this happen, there is always the possibility that the driver could present a weapon and attempt to disarm me while my partner is busy or distracted. A parolee who doesn’t want to go back to jail, A guy with warrants, A guy who just committed a robbery, A guy high on dope. It doesn’t matter why it happens, it happens!

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