Arrest In Front Of My House This Morning

[ProfessorGAC]

Some background: I live in a town of 6600 people. IMO, we have way too many police for a sleepy little bedroom community, but be that as it may, i now know that in a town that is less than 2 miles by 2 miles, we have AT LEAST 3 cops on duty during night shift.

I'm walking the dog around 4 am or a little after. I live on a corner, so while he's in the back yard, i see headlights coming up the street out front. A little weird to see anybody out there at that time of the morning, but whatever.

Then i see it's a cop car going about 10 mph, going past my side street to this little street, a block long, that is little more than an alley.

I go in (my garage is in the basement, so i go right from downstairs to the outside) and go up to the kitchen to get coffee. My wife says "what's going on?". Then i notice the red and blue lights coming in through the little window in the door.

I look out the window and there are 3 cop cars with a guy pulled over. (He's a white guy, so i'm not figuring any shooting will take place.) So, three cops pulling a guy over on a 20 mph street at 4:10 in the morning. Obviously, they were waiting for him.

They get him out of the car and pat him down. They start going through the car. Then they take him to one of their cars and put him in the back seat, but they never cuff him.

40 minutes later, they all pull away and leave the car there. The only thing i saw them take out of the guy's car were three bottles of water.

In my little town, on my little low traffic street, it took three cops to arrest a guy who obviously was so dangerous that they didn't cuff him when they took him in.

I know this is no big thing, just found it curious.

[OregonBlue]

1. Yes, it is interesting.

[Snobblevitch]

2. It is likely there is either a warrant out for his arrest,

but since he was not cuffed, he could be a material witness in another case and he ignored the subpoena. This would be routine.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. That's Certainly Possible

But, 4 in the morning? They had to be stalking him to know his pattern of going to work or something. Otherwise, why would they find him on this sleepy little street at that time of day?

And, i suppose it leads back to me thinking we have too many cops in this little city.

[mercuryblues]

7. It is

quite possible one was a town cop and the other 2 state or county.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. They Were All City Police

I know what the county cars and the city cars look like. These were all town cops.

[mercuryblues]

12. wow

Unless this was a planned arrest that is a lot on duty at that hour. I used to live in a small town where there would be only 1 cop on duty at all times. The police station was not much bigger than a phone booth. When I saw the on duty cop heading in the opposite direction as me, I knew it was safe to speed.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Ain't Like That Here

By the count of me and guy here at work who lives there too, we came up with 24 names, and we're quite sure that there are some that we've seen and just don't know their names.

I think MANS is funding part of the force so they can get the evil druggies. (No, i'm not serious. But they are.)

I checked the police report in the daily from the county's biggest city and saw nothing. So, still don't know what this was about.

[Hortensis]

4. You're lucky. Sheriff's deputies can't find our main place,

literally -- GPS has our little area all wrong. One of those good-bad things probably. An acquaintance once worked there and quit because she really didn't like what she saw, but she won't spill any details.

Last summer they did chase someone who lead them on a wild ride from an attempted traffic stop into the little pasture at the bottom of our property and to an abrupt end careening downhill into impassable woods. Like you, I was placidly minding my business, strolling into the kitchen for a cup of coffee, when I saw police cars down there and a new one pulling up with bloodhounds. Yes, we're in the South now and it turns out that cliche is true too! In any case, between the slathering dogs and wondering who was on our hill my first step was to leave them to it and go lock doors -- we have 7 to the outdoors on 3 levels and are completely hidden from other homes in the neighborhood. They arrested him, and she got away before the dogs arrived. I'm pretty sure she escaped through a very large, scary brushpile we maintain in the woods for wild animals. I wouldn't have followed her in there either.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Well, That's Kind of Scary

But, this guy wasn't cuffed. How dangerous could he be? And if 3 cops were stalking this dude at 4 in the morning in some little sleepy neighborhood, how many other cops on duty didn't need to be there.

Well, during the day, i found out the answer. 3 others.

That means 6 cops on duty on the night shift in a town of 6600. That suggests 30 active duty cops.

That means Chicago needs 15,000 cops. But, they have the extra commercial and industrial activity to add. We don't.

Too many cops! Launch 15 of them and raise the teachers' salaries.

[Hortensis]

8. Definitely. It'd be fun to know how your tiny

area got into the jobless cops rescue business.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Especially Since. . .

. . .we live in a county with over 800,000 people, with one city of 180k. The county guys are patrolling farm land and forest preserve stuff. (Well, they are responsible for things like serving summons and picking up dead-beat dads, no matter the jurisdiction.)

So, we actually do have a sizeable county back up and those guys aren't needed in the biggest city since they've got their own big force.

Jobless cop rescue business! Good one.

[cwydro]

6. Arrests are public record.

Go find out.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. We Are

Unless, as someone above said, it was a pick up of a material witness. Not sure that's public record until trial.