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Just another day in the jungle.
I’ve been feeling burned out for a while now.
What I really need is a nice vacation but my wife and I haven’t decided where to go yet.
After getting to work and eating with the squad my Sarge called me over to a spot and asked me some questions about his computer and if it was possible to retrieve computer files he’d written over. I of course went into a computer nerd type rant and answered his questions.
Then my Sarge said something no ones ever told me.
“Man, you’re so burnt. You need a vacation.”
Wow.
My Sergeant basically told me that he sees that I’m burned out and need a break from the job and honestly, I could use it. The last time I took a vacation, a real vacation was over a year and a half ago.
So, I’m decided. I’ll talk to my wife about where to go, but I need to get out of this county for a bit and lose myself somewhere for a couple of weeks.
I replied back to my Sarge, “Yea, to be honest I really don’t feel like I’m up for this today. I don’t want to be here and I do need a break. I’ll get back to you on that”.
Just then Chocolate bear raised me over our Tactical Channel and asked me to meet him just around the corner from a drug hole in an apartment complex. Alrighty, time to earn my paycheck.
I met up with him and he said he wanted to just do a basic jump out on the first dealer we spotted.
Nice. This place was like shooting fish in a barrel since we know all the dealers and where they sell.
Driving into the complex we immediately saw one about the same time he saw us. He took the ‘bomb’ out of his pocket and threw it to the floor as he started running. I jumped out of my car and chased him down as my partner retrieved the ‘bomb’.
After cuffing the guy only several feet from where he took off my partner gave me the ‘bomb’ which had 7 baggies of Marijuana totaling 8.5 Grams and 5 baggies of Powder Cocaine totaling 1.5 Grams, all inside a ziplock bag. He also had money inside every pocket in his pants but couldn’t tell me how much he had and what he had in each pocket, which was indicative of Narcotic sales. That means the $210 he had in his custody now belongs to the state since it was the profit from Narcotic sales.
Good deal.
I drove to the station to book him into a cell and impound the Narcotics.
I decided to sit at the front desk and write my paperwork on the arrest and was halfway into it when I saw a guy bust through the front door of the station holding a child that was bleeding from her right eye. He looked frantic and was yelling incoherently. He looked at me and then turned around to look back outside.
That’s when I noticed the bullet hole through his shirt and into his left shoulder blade.
Then I took a hard look at the girl he was holding. Her right eye was deformed and now I realized she had been shot in the head.
Now we had a serious issue.
I jumped up and got onto the stations mic, “Dispatch, I need fire rescue in emergency reference two gunshot victims in the front lobby of the station, hold on for BOLO information”.
Throwing the mic down I ran around the desk and through the blast doors out into the front lobby.
I got up to the man holding the girl, “Partner, I have rescue coming and you’re going to be okay but I need you to help us find out what happened here. Who shot you.’
He said to me, “Man, it was a Green Ford 150, a new one, these three dudes shot at us in front of my house [insert address] with a glock and ran”.
I keyed my handheld mic, “Dispatch, I have a short BOLO, you clear to copy?”
She said yes and I gave the description of the subjects and sent some of my units from the Jump Out squad over to the scene.
Then I had officers respond to the front of the station and when I walked outside I realized that his car was parked in a space up front, riddled with bullet holes.
Rescue pulled up and put the guy in the back of the truck while they worked on this girl. Apparently a piece of bullet fragment hit her Iris in her right eye. The rescue guy saw me staring and said to me in a whisper, “She’s blind in that eye now. There is nothing we can do for her”. That made my heart sink. She was only 9 years old and now blind…
My units started raising me over the Tac Channel, “Hey man, there is no scene where the victim said it went down, but there is a scene 6 blocks away and we have a fully broken window here with a casing.”
Hmm.. That doesn’t match up, this guys car has bullet holes in it but the windows are still there.
What that means is that there was an exchange of Gunfire and this guy wasn’t telling the whole story.
Being that I wasn’t handling the signal I left the 15 Officers that showed up out front of the station to handle it and I finish impounding and booking my prisoner and evidence.
On my way home I couldn’t shake the fact that a little girl just lost her eye probably due to a drug sale or someone acting macho and for what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
I came home and my wife made me some excellent chicken stir fry and I got to unwind while watching some TV shows.
I’m going to start looking at places for my next vacation. If you have a suggestion, please post it in a reply and give me some reasons why I should go there. It should cost less then $2000.00 hopefully.
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