“Most officers see more accidents, more dead bodies, more ‘blood and guts’ in one single day than many people see in their lifetime,” says Gary Yandura, Brookhaven’s Chief of Police. And that takes a toll.
On the other hand, it’s no secret that in light of police brutality, the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement that has made headlines recently, it’s easy to turn a blind eye to the challenges that police officers endure while on duty. However, this thread from AskReddit gives us an honest glimpse.
“Police officers of Reddit, what was your 'oh s***' moment?” the Redditor u/ilkersever asked and received a whopping 31k upvotes and almost 7.5k comments. Below are some of the most interesting stories that happened to police officers while out at work.
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The kid drowned at a local pool so I had to tag along with the ambulances for an investigation. I got there first and saw his father holding him crying and my heart sank. I ran over there and tried to perform CPR to the best of my ability for about 10 minutes before the ambulance arrived... he woke up right as it pulled onto our street. I preceded to visit him in the hospital and now he swears he wants to be a police officer.
A law prof in Australia spent 20 years as a cop before becoming a lawyer and eventually teaching. In explaining the battered wife syndrome defense to murder, he told a story of a call to a little old lady's house where she had said on the phone that she had [taken out] her husband. Before this incident, he didn't really understand why it existed. Why doesn't the woman just leave? Why doesn't she just go to someone else's house?
Prof shows up at the door and is greeted by a little old lady saying 'come in, would you like some tea?' He goes in and she starts putting some cakes on a tray and pouring tea. He wonders if she's all there.
He asked, "so you said that you [took out] your husband on the phone, would I be able to see him?" She directs him to the living room where the old man was on a lazy boy chair, bottle in hand, and a tomahawk in his skull. Meanwhile, the old lady is asking if he takes sugar or milk in his tea.
The prof said at this moment he realized why the defense of battered wife existed. The drunk old guy had been beating her for years, controlled all the money, and didn't let her have friends. She had nowhere to go even if she left him. So on this day, after saying he was going to beat her if his sports team lost, she took matters into her own hands.
He said this was the moment he realized that sometimes there are situations where life doesn't make sense and people take the only way they can see.
I'm putting this story in just to lighten the mood. I observed this, I'm not a cop. Two cop cars were rounding the corner of an intersection, in opposite directions. They crash but were going slowly enough that no one was hurt. They both got out of their cars, laughing, pulling out their ticket pads, and started writing each other tickets.
Not me, but my friend is a cop. He pulled up to an accident scene once involving a motorcycle. Gets out of his car, starts walking over, and sees the guy's helmet. Figures he’ll be nice and bring it over to the guy. Well, as it turns out, the guy was still in the helmet.
Not me but my grandpa was on the California Highway Patrol for 20 years.
He always told the story of how he pulled over this guy for a busted taillight. My grandpa asks him for his license and registration, and the guy says, “how’d you catch me so fast?”
Grandpa said the hair on the back of his neck never again stood up half so fast. Turned out the guy had robbed a bank not five minutes before.
Ex-cop from NSW Australian here. A guy once passed away in a motorcycle accident. We went to deliver the message to his girlfriend. After reading the collision report the truck driver said he just pulled straight in front of him like he deliberately was trying to take his own life. She was not answering so we forced entry. The shelves of the fridge were on the kitchen floor. Opening the fridge we discovered multiple pillowcases with her cut-up body inside. That was certainly an ‘oh s**t’ moment.
Just checked onto my shift. As I turned my patrol car on, my radio was in a mid-broadcast about an accident just outside the city I work in. I voluntarily checked in route to help out the best I could. While heading there, I was informed that it was actually closer to the next city over but that I would still be the first one there. I was then told it was a head-on collision. I arrived on the scene about a minute later. It was in fact a head-on collision. 5 people from one vehicle were not wearing seatbelts. All 5 were fatally injured beyond any measure. There was nothing I could do. A doctor showed up on the scene shortly after me. Nothing he could do. I watched 2 adults and 3 children [pass away] in front of my eyes. The 6-year-old little girl just stared at me unblinking as she passed... I still get emotional.
They were students at our elementary school. I knew them because I routinely go to that school just to see the little kids and give them junior police stickers, take pictures with them and let them play with my gadgets and police car. I went to the memorial service that the school put on for the girls to pay my respects. Their father was there and didn't know who I was or that I was the first one there or what I saw. He was talking to another father, clearly in between denial and anger phases, about how he wished he knew what officer it was on the scene so he could [take his life] for not doing anything and why didn't he do anything and blamed me for their [passing way]. That was really hard to hear. I wish I was a superhero and could have used magic powers to save those poor children. I'm sorry little ones. You deserved to live your lives.
That’s a tough one. Seatbelts are there for a reason and maybe if the parents had reinforced it they would still be alive. I’ll never understand people who don’t wear seatbelts.
I'll never understand people who put their kids in just anybody's car. If the car is moving, I want my kid in her car seat and buckled in. Anyone just hints that they might take it any less seriously, that's all I need to know, I no longer trust them with my kid.
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2 adults, 3 children, all without seatbelts or in car seats. What a tragedy.
I am so very sorry you had to see that especially when you couldn't do anything to save them. The fault lies with the adults in that car. You did provide the compassion of holding her while she passed. She wasn't alone. I hope that one day that will give you some semblance of peace. It sucks he said that and even more so that you heard it.
When training as paramedic in emergency ward, I ever had that sad experience. It was midnight , there are just one paramedic and me (paramedic student). The victim is a young girl that ride motorcycle and crash. Big open wound in many place and unconscious. We spend almost a hour treating her before the doctor coming. She die on the next day.
Don't take it personally. Everyone grieves differently. The children and God knows you did what you could. At least she wasn't alone when she passed. Thank you for being there for them.
That's a form of guilt displacement syndrome. It's easier to blame someone else when you don't know who to blame.
So he was angry at a cop who's not a doctor, but not his wife for allowing the kids to go w/o seatbelts?
A police officer is not Jesus. He probably couldn't even pull the kids out of the wreck by himself, he certainly can't revive the dead.
Daddy didn't teach them to wear the belts that would have saved their lives. So blame the innocent cop.
I'm so sorry you were the target for a bereft father. You know he'd never accept the truth, and you'll never forget everyone did what they could but it wasn't ever going to be enough. You did a loving service for an untimely passing.
People often say things when going through the grieving process that they later regret or simply don't realise that what they're saying will greatly impact on the lives of others. As the wife of a serving police officer I can tell you that although you did everything you possibly could at the time u til the parent comes to terms with their loss and starts to recover they sadly wont feel any different, but you know you did everything possible so hold onto that. PS - if you need help because of this accident please reach out to someone as far too many police officers end their own lives from what happened to them on the job - don't become one of those statistics
Many years ago my cousin, her fiance and their two babies plus her 8 year old son were hit by a drunk driver and the only one who survived was her 8 year old son. He survived because he had taken off his seat belt and was catapulted through the windscreen and survived with multiple broken bones and other injuries and had to be helicoptered to the hospital. Drunk driver was out in 4 years, 1 year for each person he murdered. He has lost his licence several times since then and I honestly don't know why the judges aren't doing their job.
I'm not sure why the father of the girls would assume that a police officer would have advanced medical training. The vast majority do not. But you are correct - he was in anger and in denial. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. You looked the one girl in the eye as she passed and very likely helped ease her transition. Find peace.
I don’t know anyone who has taken an introductory physics class who does not wear seat belts. Respect Newton and “F=ma”
When a person dies tragically, family always want to blame someone for the death.
That sucks sorry for both you and family. Why weren't kids wearing seat belts.
WEAR YOUR BLOODY SEATBELTS! That's why his kids died. He should blame himself and his dead wife!
The theme of the entire post lets you know not to read if you're sensitive to traumatic events
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Bad parents (the dad in this case) like to blame everyone else for their bad parenting
We had a multiple fatality down the road from my old house. Car was overloaded with people, none wearing seatbelts. I got there about 30sec after the police with blankets and a first aid kit but there was nothing that could be done. I'll never forget that scene or the look on those poor cops faces
Always wear a f*****g seatbelt - it is and isn’t rocket science
Grief and anger can cause someone to be irrational. That's probably what happened with the father. But it clearly wasn't the cop's fault. The doctor wasn't even able to do anything. The adults in the car were to blame.
What idiotic parent wouldn’t put a seatbelt on their children? It’s not fair that people like this have to go and pick up the pieces.
The urge to dress down the ignorant and irresponsible father really took a lot of will.
My hubby didn't always wear his seatbelt. He said he didn't want to be trapped in a car if it jammed. I had him talk to a cop friend, who said that in his career, he was much more likely to see someone die not wearing a seatbelt. I also told hubby I wouldn't go out with him unless he wore his. It's really a matter of playing the odds. Yes, there are exceptions like your husband, but overall you are more likely to live if you wear one.
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I pulled up on a teen sleeping in a vehicle at the end of a country road. When I ran the license plate, I found out that he was reported as a runaway. The doors on the vehicle were locked, so I knocked on the window to wake him up. Once he woke up and realized what was going on, he shot himself in the mouth with a rifle he had hidden under his blanket. Rough way to start my shift.
Not me, but my brother.
My brother was hit by a drunk driver on Interstate 30 in Fort Worth in July 2017. Went flying, laid there for a second, and then got up and arrested the guy who hit him.
Got a call for an emotionally disturbed person. Arrive on scene and a 350lb man built like an NFL lineman is passed out of on the floor face down. His wife says he suffers from PTSD from the first Iraq war and that he was an army ranger. He had been drinking heavily. His son is on scene and about 16 years old. The man begins to wake up and proceeds to smash his forehead into the ground, repeatedly. We call for an ambulance. A small pool of blood begins to form on the floor. The wife grabs a rag and goes to wipe it up when this guy's head jerks up real quick, his face contorted in rage. He grabs the wife by the neck and throws her clear across the room onto the couch. We immediately jump on him but he is preternaturally strong. There are four of us and we are each fighting one limb. The kid jumps in and helps us get two sets of cuffs on him because one set was not wide enough to connect his wrists behind his back. I ride in the ambulance to the hospital with him while he glares at me angrily reciting his military registration number and telling me I won't get any information out of him and that I'm a towel head (I don't remotely look like I'm from the region). The entire ride I hope that he doesn't break out of the cuffs. If I'm being honest, I'm not sure we would've gained control of him if the kid hadn't helped.
My older brother is a cop. He got a call about a [disturbed] teenager behind a school with a knife. He rolled up to the spot and when the kid noticed him he immediately started hacking at his own neck with the knife. My brother sprints over to him and tases him. Saved the kid's life
Former Paramedic.
Known former gang member, and seriously bad dude who was suffering from epilepsy. It was known that when he was postictal (after the seizure) he would "revert to his gangland days" and anyone in uniform he wanted to fight. Hey look, ambulance drivers wear uniforms.
Got a call to his known address, me and my partner are the first to arrive on the scene. I already had the Valium and Versed drawn up and was ready to hit him with a "knock you out" dose. As I got to the door his mother (a very sweet lady) was hollering he's coming to!!!
I jumped on top of him and with all my might hold him down and rode him like I was on the Pro Bull Riding Rodeo Tour. My partner was able to get the meds into him IM which takes longer to work than IV so I had to do that for the next 5-7 min till Fire showed up. I was exhausted and not really wanting to get my a*s beat rode that bull till 5 more guys took over, I rolled off and was just done.
3 hours later I ended up back at the hospital and he was in there. He apologized, always did, and said he never fought with anyone as tough as me. Thank god for being 40# heavier and a pocket full of mind-altering drugs.
Not me personally (well, yes and no), but my mother is a police officer and she was pregnant (with me). She went to a call, on the last day before she starts her maternity leave, about a man who was locked in his house and threatening to [take his own life]. She entered the premises with other officers, and like an idiot (I love my mom but...) the pregnant lady takes point. She entered the bathroom where the guy was holed up, and he was sitting in a bathtub with a revolver pointed right at the door, so she yells "GUN!" and pushes the other officer with her back outside. When they finally claimed the guy and got the gun from him they checked it and said it looked like all the primers had been struck but since it was really old ammunition they didn't go off. She went on her maternity leave and had me and said she almost didn't go back because of that. Now she's a police chief.
Nothing makes you go "oh s**t" more than stopping an obvious drunk, feeling like you could be stopping a homicide in progress, to realizing you know the person...maybe you know them really well.
Not a cop, but an Animal Control Officer. Got a call about a family dog that had been attacked an hour ago by something wild. Got there to find said family dog's skin rotting off with most of it gone and complete with maggots due to massive infection. Later found out it was from either a chemical burn or boiling water poured on the dog. Two. Weeks. Ago. The dog was taken to ER and euthed immediately due to only viable skin being skin on the dog's head. The family still insisted it was a wild animal and it happened that night.
I have no faith in humanity.
Former paramedic here: I responded to a crash on the highway that required the extrication of the driver. I hop in the back seat and hold c-spine as the fire starts taking off the door, cutting posts, etc.
The driver starts asking where Mollie and Fred are, and if they’re ok. I’m confused because she was the only occupant of the car. I ask her if she’s talking about the other car and she says “No, they’re my pet tarantula and snake.” I look in the floorboard and there are the remains of two terrariums, but no Mollie or Fred.
My husband has been a police officer for over 20 years. One night he was patrolling the downtown area when he noticed a purse someone had left behind. He opened the bag to check for id and found a turd. Some lady [pooped] in her handbag and left it behind. He'll talk about autopsies and burnt bodies, but that is the one story he would rather forget.
As a rookie, I was responding to an alarm at the restaurant that was supposed to be “haunted by a woman.” The first officer that arrived was an older officer that didn’t do much and didn’t even get excited on the radio. As soon as he arrived he asked for a second unit in a high-pitched tone. As I pulled in he had his shotgun out and he was leaned up over his hood. My first thought was “ oh s**t someone is breaking in “. When I ran up to him and asked what was up. All he said was as he pulled up and his lights hit the building a woman jumped off the roof and disappeared. He was clearly shaking. I and another officer checked the building and found no evidence that someone had been there. It made an impression on me and I never went back to the restaurant at night without another officer.
Was at a traffic stop. My Sergeant came and backed me up due to having to possibly tow the vehicle. My Sergeant's vehicle was behind mine and we were both in the right lane. My Sergeant was sitting in his car and I exited my car to go talk to him. As I walked closer to his car I heard a vehicle’s engine rev all the way out but I couldn’t see it. For a split second, I knew what was going to happen and thought oh s**t but couldn’t react fast enough. The vehicle I heard smashed into the back of my Sergeant SUV which struck me, throwing me into the road. The driver was completely hammered and didn’t have a license. This happened last Sunday and I have surgery in a couple of weeks for my knee and my Sergeant has a broken back.
Police paramedic- Went to a bad MVA. When I got home from work I noticed my boot was clicking on my kitchen floor. I thought it was a stone stuck in the tread but it was leftover bits of a fragmented skull. There was some brain in there too.
I decided to trash the boots. I mean, they weren't totally worn out, but then again I'm not scrubbing brain matter out of my boots at 5 am in my kitchen sink.
This happened in August of last year, was about 1-2 in the morning when a 911 hang-up call came in where all that was heard was screaming and swearing.
I was the closest unit, riding alone as my partner had been voluntold for another assignment that set of days, so when I got out into the area, I was initially waiting for backup however as I was walking up to the house, I heard several voices screaming.
Rushing up to the house, the first thing I noticed was blood.... everywhere. The floor, the walls, the door, are all covered to shoulder height. A distraught woman screamed and pointed me towards the living room.
Once I get into the living room, I see a male and female on a couch, both covered in blood. The male had a massive laceration on his right forearm, and the female had taken a belt and snake wrapped it around his arm to try and stop the bleeding. Seeing how the belt was applied, I knew it wasn’t doing anything to stop the blood flow, so I pulled out my tourniquet and as I prepped it said to the guy “This is gonna hurt like hell, but it’ll stop the bleeding”
I applied the tourniquet just above the top of his bicep and knew it was on properly when he told me his hand had started to go numb. It was at that point I noticed a second deep gash on his tricep that went down to the bone.
It took EMS about 15 minutes to get to the house, and the paramedic made it abundantly clear that had I not applied the tourniquet, the male would have bled out long before they were able to get there.
In the end, turns out the guy had come home drunk and forgot his keys... climbed up to a second-story window, and punched his way into the house, with near-deadly results.
You were his guardian angel in human form that night. Also, he doesn't need to drink anymore.
We happened to be right on top of the scene when a carjacking with a gun call went out. I saw the car fishtailing in the snow half a block away. We started to chase, and the driver bailed immediately in the driveway of an apartment. I chased him up a hill while my partner ran around the building to cut him off. Just as I crested the hill, a shot rang out - he fired blindly behind him, the old "to whom it may concern" shot. We chased him through a church parking lot where the bingo game was just letting out, so no return fire. Caught him in a backyard behind the church. The department gave us nice plaques. And cake.
Was a police intern, maybe about my second month in. I got to ride around and help with traffic stops and basically just help the officer on duty. Fairly small town, nothing ever really happened there - mostly just drunks and domestic calls. One afternoon I was with a cop new to the force, fresh from working in the prison. Great guy, anyhow, we are running a speed check on the outskirts of town and find a guy on a motorcycle speeding with no helmet (illegal at the time). Hit the lights, pulls over with no incident. We get out, guy doesn’t even turn around, barely answers the questions through his teeth. Back to the cruiser and run his license. Comes back with several out-of-state warrants with a BOLA attached due to an armed assault against a police officer. We both looked at each other and back at the dude on the motorcycle. Officer immediately unlatches the shotgun from the center console and hands it to me - “If you know how to use this thing, use it”, was all he said. (OH S**T) Without notice, other officers from surrounding towns are already lining up behind us, thank god. The dude was thankfully tired of being on the run and was ready to turn himself in. He went in without incident.
I’m not an officer but my friend's dad was. He got a call that someone took their own life at a residence and he didn’t find out until he drove over that it was the guy's daughter's 5th birthday. He got drunk with the other dads and they decided to play Russian roulette, with 1911.
My mate had an oh s**t moment on his first week of solo traffic patrols.
Pulled a drunk guy over and the trunk literally had 2 people just chilling in it asleep
We were looking for a guy who stole guns from his ex and found him under a pile of clothes in a closet at a different house. Unfortunately, there were like 7 kids sleeping in the same room so I start getting them out of there while my partner cuffed the guy who was pretending to sleep. We decided to drag him out and I go to move the mattress to get it out of the way and we found the stolen guns under where the kids were sleeping.
Back when I was an MP, I was assigned to write up abandoned vehicles on an area on a post and found a nasty one with busted out windows no plates while checking it out noticed a couple of wires running from the front to the back. Lifted something in the back and [found this]
A lot of phone calls above my head determined that it was an unlabeled training tool that had been left just laying out in the public by some unit on the post. The next day it had “training” spray-painted on the side to keep anyone only from having the same oh-s**t moment.
My BIL was a police officer in a beach town with a large military presence. On one of his first days as an officer, he responded to what sounded like a fairly routine car accident but when he arrived he found a car on fire and a person trapped inside. While he’s pulling the guy out he realized that the persons leg was severed, so once he got far enough away from the burning car he had to put a tourniquet on the dude's leg. A higher ranking officer responded after my BIL gave a better description of the scene and that guy ended up getting some kind of award for his “heroic actions”.
My cousin is a cop in St. Louis. After graduating from the academy, his very first night on patrol was the night the Ferguson riots started.
Former MP here. Partner and I were riding around when we saw another unit dip into a Weapons Storage Area. Figured eh let’s see what they’re up to. Rolled up to the gate and the guard says “You guys here for the bomb leak?”
I’m sorry, what? We are now. Hit the gas and went rolling in to find the fire department and all there investigating.
Had to evacuate the entire weapons area, most of the supply area across the street as well as most of the flight line. Something like a 3000-meter cordon. That was a fun day.
Ended up just being sealant for anyone interested in the outcome.
Understood the individual words just not the meaning of the whole.
When I was responding to a simple trespass after a warning call and upon me making contact with the trespassed individual, he charged me and my zone partner with a pair of scissors.
Hey! No running with scissors. Didn't your mother teach you anything?
My husband got a call for a psychiatric emergency when working as an Emt. A kid on a 4 wheeler saw a pickup crash into a stone wall in a field and called the police, who called EMS. Apparently, the driver had driven into the wall intentionally and stabbed himself in the abdomen as well, and then [bled out] or [passed away] of head injuries until someone found him. As my so was leaning in to turn off the engine the truck ran out of gas. That was the weirdest one he's told me.
Last Friday Everett Police Officer Dan Rocha was called to a coffee shop parking lot to check out a man who was moving guns between cars. There was an altercation, and the man—a convicted felon with 51 previous arrests and 18 felonies—shot officer Rocha, then drove away, running over Rocha's body in the process. The man was caught a short time later after causing a traffic accident that totaled two other vehicles. Officer Rocha leaves behind a wife, two sons, and a large extended family. RIP officer Rocha.
i used to be a new york cop and was visiting my estranged wife and kids in LA for Christmas i went to see her at her office and when i was there a group of German terrorist try to take over i managed to take them all down and save the day made a friend with one of the local cops called Carl wouldn't you know it managed to do all that barefoot as well
I just read a news story about an older gentleman who had a wellness check called on him. The police showed up and asked if they know why they are there. He said, "Because my son's body is in my kitchen?" Turns out his son died like four years ago and his body was in the kitchen. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-man-67-kept-sons-corpse-kitchen-nearly-4-years-police-say-rcna22338
I worked for the Amsterdam Police Force (The Netherlands) for 24 years as a brigadier in uniform. I saw a lot of s**t. Was send with a collega to a big appartment building. There had been a huge fight between two groups of people. When we came there a person was laying in front of the building. He died soon after. He ran away and jumped over the railing, ninth floor. After about 15 minutes a tenant told us there was another victim at the back of the builing. There had been a fight between two groups of people in a flat at the ninth floot with karpan swords. Two dead and several wounded. Later I was in the flat and the blood was everywhere and on the ceiling. Most weird... 4th oktober 1992. With same collegae on patrole when a few hunderd meters in front of us a Boeing fel from the air. Bijlmerramp. Lots of suicides (once 3 in one week) Lots of fights. Lot of addicts. I am running out of space... (excuse my mistakes, English is not my native language)
This is from the Wikipedia page about the crash. Are they talking about you? "At the time of the crash, two police officers were in Bijlmermeer checking on a burglary report. They saw the aircraft plummet and immediately sounded an alarm."
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This article made me cry. I want to be a cop, but sometimes (like right now) it's a really difficult decision.
In a sociology course I took there was a lesson on occupations. One line stuck with me for the law enforcement job description, 'long periods of boredom, broken by moments of terror'
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My niece went on a ride along with my brother-in-law when she was about nineteen. We had a lot of cops in our family, my Dad, brother, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. My niece said it was fun up until they pulled up to a domestic violence incident (most cops hate those, with good reason). There had been a big fight but the end result was the guy had cut his girlfriend's nose off.
My brother is a police officer for a nearby county of ours. He's had several "oh s**t" moments, but the most recent one was a man who murdered his boss and co worker, who had been "on the run" for a few days. My brother was working the night shift and was at the station when the guy walks up and says he's turning himself in. When he realized just who this guy was, he just shook his head and thanked the lord that the guy didn't try anything stupid, like kill more people.
For reasons such as this, how are “rude alongs” permitted? I’m in Australia and have never heard of them happening here (happy to be corrected but still…how are they allowed???)
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I've watched cops have an oh sh!t moment. Back when I lived in a big city I lived in a walk up. It wasn't the worst area of the city but definitely questionable. The house beside my building constantly had its occupants fighting and yelling, it was clear they were doing something illegal but I could count on one hand how often cops showed up in 5 years. Till the day the place caught on fire. Me and every nosey neighbour was watching thinking "yay! People will have to leave now!" We saw a wall collapse, then the fire chief came to one of the officers who turned white. Suddenly we all were ushered quickly from the area and cops were banging on the doors in my building. Turns out it was a meth lab. Nobody was surprised by this but damn was that scary.
I really have to [fault] this [alleged] article for replacing the most [harmless] words with [emendations]. It's [pathetic].
What exactly were you expecting to read about....bunnies loose in a garden?
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Oh come on. What do you think being a first responder is like. When I was young (maybe 7ish) we were in a car on the motorway and we were first on the scene at a major pile-up. My mother is a nurse, so she immediately ran to help. I can assure you that it was just as bad if not worse than some of these, including the guy who had to be physically stopped from lighting up a cigarette with a match while standing in a puddle of spilt gasoline.
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Last Friday Everett Police Officer Dan Rocha was called to a coffee shop parking lot to check out a man who was moving guns between cars. There was an altercation, and the man—a convicted felon with 51 previous arrests and 18 felonies—shot officer Rocha, then drove away, running over Rocha's body in the process. The man was caught a short time later after causing a traffic accident that totaled two other vehicles. Officer Rocha leaves behind a wife, two sons, and a large extended family. RIP officer Rocha.
i used to be a new york cop and was visiting my estranged wife and kids in LA for Christmas i went to see her at her office and when i was there a group of German terrorist try to take over i managed to take them all down and save the day made a friend with one of the local cops called Carl wouldn't you know it managed to do all that barefoot as well
I just read a news story about an older gentleman who had a wellness check called on him. The police showed up and asked if they know why they are there. He said, "Because my son's body is in my kitchen?" Turns out his son died like four years ago and his body was in the kitchen. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-man-67-kept-sons-corpse-kitchen-nearly-4-years-police-say-rcna22338
I worked for the Amsterdam Police Force (The Netherlands) for 24 years as a brigadier in uniform. I saw a lot of s**t. Was send with a collega to a big appartment building. There had been a huge fight between two groups of people. When we came there a person was laying in front of the building. He died soon after. He ran away and jumped over the railing, ninth floor. After about 15 minutes a tenant told us there was another victim at the back of the builing. There had been a fight between two groups of people in a flat at the ninth floot with karpan swords. Two dead and several wounded. Later I was in the flat and the blood was everywhere and on the ceiling. Most weird... 4th oktober 1992. With same collegae on patrole when a few hunderd meters in front of us a Boeing fel from the air. Bijlmerramp. Lots of suicides (once 3 in one week) Lots of fights. Lot of addicts. I am running out of space... (excuse my mistakes, English is not my native language)
This is from the Wikipedia page about the crash. Are they talking about you? "At the time of the crash, two police officers were in Bijlmermeer checking on a burglary report. They saw the aircraft plummet and immediately sounded an alarm."
Load More Replies... This article made me cry. I want to be a cop, but sometimes (like right now) it's a really difficult decision.
In a sociology course I took there was a lesson on occupations. One line stuck with me for the law enforcement job description, 'long periods of boredom, broken by moments of terror'
Load More Replies... My niece went on a ride along with my brother-in-law when she was about nineteen. We had a lot of cops in our family, my Dad, brother, brother-in-law and sister-in-law. My niece said it was fun up until they pulled up to a domestic violence incident (most cops hate those, with good reason). There had been a big fight but the end result was the guy had cut his girlfriend's nose off.
My brother is a police officer for a nearby county of ours. He's had several "oh s**t" moments, but the most recent one was a man who murdered his boss and co worker, who had been "on the run" for a few days. My brother was working the night shift and was at the station when the guy walks up and says he's turning himself in. When he realized just who this guy was, he just shook his head and thanked the lord that the guy didn't try anything stupid, like kill more people.
For reasons such as this, how are “rude alongs” permitted? I’m in Australia and have never heard of them happening here (happy to be corrected but still…how are they allowed???)
Load More Replies... I've watched cops have an oh sh!t moment. Back when I lived in a big city I lived in a walk up. It wasn't the worst area of the city but definitely questionable. The house beside my building constantly had its occupants fighting and yelling, it was clear they were doing something illegal but I could count on one hand how often cops showed up in 5 years. Till the day the place caught on fire. Me and every nosey neighbour was watching thinking "yay! People will have to leave now!" We saw a wall collapse, then the fire chief came to one of the officers who turned white. Suddenly we all were ushered quickly from the area and cops were banging on the doors in my building. Turns out it was a meth lab. Nobody was surprised by this but damn was that scary.
I really have to [fault] this [alleged] article for replacing the most [harmless] words with [emendations]. It's [pathetic].
What exactly were you expecting to read about....bunnies loose in a garden?
Load More Replies... Oh come on. What do you think being a first responder is like. When I was young (maybe 7ish) we were in a car on the motorway and we were first on the scene at a major pile-up. My mother is a nurse, so she immediately ran to help. I can assure you that it was just as bad if not worse than some of these, including the guy who had to be physically stopped from lighting up a cigarette with a match while standing in a puddle of spilt gasoline.
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