10K race day here in the city. They staff the race with plenty of Police and Fire personnel so its really not an issue for patrol except a lot of street are closed and parking becomes a hassle but its only a few hours so we kind of overlook the parking problems.
First call was in another sector and came out as an assault in progress so I assisted. Long story short is that a female hooks up with 2 other people in one of our seedy hotels on the "Pike" and gets robbed and strangled. She told us she had just cashed her income tax check and had $1100.00 on her when this guy she was hanging out with took it from her and then tried to choke her. Well he took off before we arrived but the log officer got his information and did his report. Oh and those marks on her arm were not track marks she said, I wagered that you could have run a whole Amtrak express up and down her arms but who am I to judge?
Next call was from a business that has a loading zone in front of their business and they always call us first thing in the morning for people parked illegally in the spaces. 2 tickets later I was back in service.
After an alarm call I dispatched to a disorderly call in a park that is well known for homosexual activity. It seems that a person was camping out in the park and when asked to leave gave the park worker some attitude. As I got there he was leaving and bitched a little about how he was woken up and I told him to have a nice day and don't come back.
A disabled motorist was my next call and I sat and waited until she got a tow truck to tow her vehicle since she was in a hazardous place on the highway. The law here is that when approaching an emergency vehicle with it's lights flashing you need to do either slow down or move over and about 80% of driver will comply with the law but it's the other 20% that are assholes and make this job dangerous. sat there for about an hour and lost count of how many people blew by me without even hitting the brakes.
Next call was from a security guard that patrols one of the shopping centers. He called because he observed 2 males open carrying, which is not illegal here. I get there explain that they are doing nothing wrong and he asks me to stand by while he questions these 2 individuals. I pull up and wait for him to talk to them. After a few minutes he comes back and thanks me for standing by and I leave.
A couple of abandoned vehicle calls later and then an accident with injuries/person trapped about a minute before I was to head in and report off. Evenings were still in roll call when the call came out but an evening Sergeant told dispatch that they were coming out and to assign it to one of her units. I cleared my call and told dispatch I would head over to provide traffic control while the evening officer worked the accident. A vehicle lost control and struck a parked vehicle pushing that vehicle into a tree which caused the striking vehicle to flip and land on the driver side. By the time I got there the driver of the striking vehicle had managed to climb out so there was no one trapped. The evening officer showed up and worked the accident and I hung around and gave him a hand and waited for the wreckers to clear the road and then headed back to the Precinct to report off.
Good busy day which makes it a lot of fun......See ya tomorrow.
10-7 EOT
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