Cop Tales are true tales as instructed by regulation enforcement officers from all around the nation. | Unsplash
Cop Tales are true tales as instructed by regulation enforcement officers from all around the nation. The tales are instructed within the first particular person. The precise officer’s initials observe every story.
Each of them?
Once I was a sergeant for the freeway patrol in a big metropolis, I used to be patrolling alone on the freeway throughout the graveyard shift after I noticed a compact automobile in entrance of me. I don’t recall what drew my consideration to the car, however I ran a license plate verify on it. The dispatcher suggested that the car was stolen. I known as for a back-up unit to assist me cease the car whereas I continued to observe it.
As we proceeded up the freeway, I observed that each time the pick-up truck in entrance of the stolen automobile made a lane change, the stolen automobile would do the identical factor. It appeared as if they had been following one another. I moved nearer and ran the license plate of the pickup truck as nicely. Dispatch suggested that the car returned to a passenger automobile as a substitute of a pickup truck. I known as for extra patrol items so we might cease each of them. After each automobiles had been stopped, we confirmed that each of them had been stolen. The drivers had been taken into custody and the automobiles had been returned to their homeowners. -BS
Not a superb assembly
I had simply returned to work from a sequence of a lot wanted days off from the freeway patrol after I observed a medium-sized RV stopped in one of many small relaxation areas. It was nightfall after I pulled in behind it. Once I peered within the rear window with my flashlight, I used to be horrified to see a bloody, bloated, partially clad, feminine physique mendacity within the middle aisle. I instantly notified dispatch that I used to be on scene of what seemed to be a homicide.
It was decided that she was on her approach residence from a deliberate journey when she used her CB radio to make contact with passing truckers. A subsequent assembly went in an unintended path with lethal penalties. On the trial, the trucker admitted getting into her RV, however claimed he discovered her that approach, received scared and left. The trial led to a hung jury as a result of there have been no eyewitnesses and solely circumstantial proof. It was such a tragic day for her household. -PB
A tricky metropolis
My father was a police officer for 33 years in a big Illinois metropolis and was shot within the line of responsibility. He survived the incident and continued to serve and defend. Once I was 9 years outdated, he and his associate stopped by our home one Saturday morning and I begged him for a trip in his squad automobile. Regardless that it was not inside laws, he agreed. About an hour later, they acquired a name to verify on a theft at a enterprise and went in to talk to the proprietor. They left me within the again seat.
Whereas I used to be sitting there, a loud girl and her two youngsters walked up and actually caught her head within the window of the patrol automobile and loudly instructed her youngsters, “See what occurs to unhealthy little boys.” At that second, my father and his associate returned. The girl then loudly requested my father what crime I had dedicated. With a straight face, my father instructed her that I had simply killed a loud girl. The look of horror on her face was priceless as she grabbed her youngsters and rapidly hustled off, leaving my dad, his associate and I laughing hysterically. -RB
The writer, Brian Smith, served 4 years within the U.S. Marine Corps, and retired as an assistant chief with the California Freeway Patrol. He resides in Bakersfield, California. When you have a private “Cop Story” to share, please contact Brian at [email protected]
