A coworker told me about this show. It is essentially like Cops but is aired live on Friday and Saturday nights on A&E. The show usually follows about 4-5 different police departments live and they bounce around between departments/officers where there is something interesting going on.
It's totally watching a train-wreck. One thing is for sure, I will never go to that one county in South Carolina where every week there is always all sorts of crazy stuff going down.
At this point, any time that Dan prefaces a segment with "Let's go to El Paso... Officer Zendejas has apparently been flagged down..." I know it's going to be more than likely something ridiculous. She seems to attract nothing but nutters.
At this point, any time that Dan prefaces a segment with "Let's go to El Paso... Officer Zendejas has apparently been flagged down..." I know it's going to be more than likely something ridiculous. She seems to attract nothing but nutters.
Yeah, she gets some weird stuff. Reminds me of James Casey from Arizona and how much I miss him! He would get THE weirdest stuff of anybody and his responses were great. I also miss Poole, from that same police dept. Wish they would come back.
That reminds of the time my partner were on routine patrol and came up behind a car stopped at the tracks. It is a MS state law to stop at RR tracks, look both ways then proceed.
This was a crossing with lights and it was 2:00 in the morning. After a few minutes, the guy didn't move, we decided to check him out. He was smoking a joint.
I'm the middle of the night, stopped at a railroad crossing, this guy was toking away as if he home on his couch.
Sometimes they will let "nuisance" cases go, because they know it will tie up an already overloaded court system, plus the time spent on paperwork. And they know that being on the street gives them a better possibility of preventing or solving bigger crimes.
Of course, there are times when it would be advisable to lock up the perp you have, but it depends on what they did.
I think I've seen it twice now (forget which state) where they do a field sobriety test and say something like "ok..now I want to give you a breathalyzer. Now this can't be used against you at all and isn't admissible in court but will let me determine if I let drive from here or if somebody picks you up"...I'm trying to figure out what scenario that works for.
We saw more of this in earlier episodes, basically if they are right at or below the legal limit, they will let someone pick them up because by the time they get to the station for the official test, they may no longer be over the limit.
Officer Mosquetto (forget the spelling), would often explain that it also could depend on if their BAC was going up or down (like they just downed a bunch of shots or something, it could be going up). So the field tests also could play into the decision.
I noticed something the other day. Almost none of the officers wear their seatbelt.
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