Police Department

Friday, Dec 28 I had the opportunity to ride on the west side of town with a patrol officer. I had no idea what to expect or what we would be doing. It was a interesting night but with the weather it turned out to be a slow night of crime. I did find out some interesting facts about police work in general.

They ARE to short handed to enforce the law. We had three cars in the distinct to back each other up and most of the time they were working in the same general area.
People in this city must not know what a fire lane is in this city because they wrote about ten tickets for this violation, then hearing every excuse you could think of. Even here a few had suspended driver licenses which they just wrote tickets for and sent them on their way. Why? Because being short handed it would tie these patrolmen up waiting on the tow trucks and so forth.

I loved the computer system in our police cars. Put in your license plate number and seconds later the information became visible.

On one arrest, I reminded the Sgt. that he work for the people of Indianapolis and should do as they asked. We had a drunk that decided to fight and after handcuff, he kept saying “just take me to jail”. They accommodated this citizen on his request.