![]() Had to get something out of my locker and found my badge hanging on my jacket that I had taken off earlier because it had warmed up outside. and was preparing for the coming discipline. Spent a few hours re-tracing my steps but couldn’t find it. Halfway through my shift I realized my badge was missing from my shirt. I asked a blind man if glasses would help him see. "Sir, do you have any glasses that could help?" "No." Turns out this man was not simply "visually impaired," he was completely blind. Then he advised me he was "visually impaired." Visually impaired? Oh. I try to show details of damage not lining up with what he claimed happened. Well, it turns out the caller did not actually see what happened. Investigating a potential motor vehicle accident into a fence at the caller's residence. Leaving that one accessory light bar on and wondering why people are pulling over to let you pass. 1: Intercept car for seat belt ticket, left my car on (D)rive, yelling at offender for "backing into my cruiser." He got away without the ticket. 2: CrownVic stuck in the mud, called for tow truck, other police car made fun of me on radio and then got stuck himself in mud right beside my cruiser. In full uniform, within full view of the freeway, running around trying to pick up all my papers in the middle of the afternoon.ģ: Leaving my doppler radar on top of the cruiser, and at a red light, watching other motorists laughing at me, realizing the doppler was still there. Made it to the overpass before it fell off and burst open. Beginning of shift, put my posse box on the roof of the patrol car.Needless to say, they got a verbal warning! I guess getting locked out on a TS and the vehicle you stopped was a lock smith. Where to start? I have experienced most of what was mentioned.Then watching it hit a parked car thinking what an idiot the other cop was for hitting the car and then realizing no one is in it and it was your unit! Forgetting to put unit in park and having it roll by you and the complainant while taking information for a call.I once had to go back to the jail because I forgot to ask certain interview questions during a DWI investigation, and have had to drive to witnesses' residences well after the fact to ask an important question I duffed during the initial interview. Having to backtrack for information you should have gotten the first time. Being forced to use the restroom in a private residence, or to ask a citizen on a scene for a favor of most any kind.ġ9. Being late for shift or training, or missing a court date.ġ8. Having someone discover (typically your field training officer doing an inspection) that you don't have a round in the chamber of your duty weapon.ġ7. Exponentially worse if you're running code (lights and sirens).ġ6. Getting your directions mixed up on your way to a call and either driving the wrong way or driving well under the speed limit trying to get your bearings. ![]() Forgetting or miswearing a uniform component (name badge upside down, for example).ġ5. Lasering (pointing the muzzle of a firearm in someone's direction) someone on the firing range.ġ4. It's understood that there's no way of totally avoiding crossfire or cross-contamination, but some hits are more direct than others.ġ3. Spraying another officer with OC (pepper) spray while trying to subdue a combative subject. A third shifter responded, "We're right here, buddy." Made for a bit of tension in the station.ġ2. One of us second shifters got sent to a complicated call late in our shift, and an officer on my squad thinking he was set to squad-wide messaging, typed, "Where is third shift?" He, unfortunately, sent that to the entire city instead. We had a system on the patrol car laptops that allowed you to send a message to an individual officer, a squad, or all officers on duty. Having to be accommodated during police academy (falling out of formation while running and so on).ġ1. Losing your keys or electronic access card.ġ0. Also during a vehicle pursuit, but far less so, because you have to drive much more cautiously than the suspect will in order to preserve the safety of innocent drivers and bystanders.ĩ. Getting bested by a defense attorney while testifying, whether them walking you through a procedural anomaly or letting them get under your skin.Ĩ. Missing contraband while searching an arrestee and having a jailer find it.ħ. When I was in the police academy, I attended the retirement reception of a lieutenant during which an accidental discharge he'd had as a rookie was brought up.Ĥ. Accidental discharge of your duty weapon. You never want to run out of gas while on patrol.
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