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Any non-LEO's participate in a ride-along recently? Share your stories... Mine is:
I went on a ride-along with Aurora's finest...I knew what was expected; observe from a distance, keep your mouth shut, etc. I choose to go on a night shift, just knowing I would see more action, right?
During the shift, it was pretty slow. I ws able to ask a lot of questions and if I pointed out something on a vehicle and questioned the legality of equipment i.e., night effects and/or license plate covers, the officer would ask "Should we pull them over?" lol
The last call of the evening was an assault call. We get to the scene and there are two females outside an apartment complex. We walk up and one of the females looks at me with a bewildered look and says "she was the one who attacked us". WTF?!?
The Officer laughs and says "Ma'am that's impossible because she has been with us all evening". The story soon comes out that these two females are cousins and they were in the car with a male friend, when one of the females begins to physically assault the male. He pulls over in the apartment complex, runs to an apartment and gets his Sister to come out to pull the two females out of his vehicle and proceed to beat them up.
Long story short; one of the females has a warrant out for her arrest, so she proceeds to give the officer a fake name. The officer runs her info in this state and her claimed last state of residence. The officer is unable to find ANYTHING on this girl. One of the females gets transported for the assault and the one that no info can be located on, decides she wants to go to the hospital. While at the hospital, we tried different ways to secure her identity. A nurse assisted with a ruse, saying she could have her hospital stay covered by medicaid, but that they had to verify her identity first. (that didn't work)
The officer makes the female tell her story AGAIN and she manages to trip herself up and say her real name. By that time, we had spent four hours on this call. The Officer was PO'd. He yelled that she wasted everyone's time and that she was going to jail. At that point, the female begins to cry and asks me, ME, if there's any way I can help her. I simply told her "You shouldn't have lied to the Cops". Come to find out, this child had multiple warrants from two different counties and she was using her daughter's name to try to avoid being found out. Now, her daughters name is listed in her string of aliases....SMH. I had sooo much fun and it was very eye-opening. Funny thing is, it had never crossed my mind that she was lying. I encourage ANYONE who is interested in LE work to do a ride-along. It really gives you an idea of what you'll be dealing with first hand.
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I went on a ride-along with Aurora's finest...I knew what was expected; observe from a distance, keep your mouth shut, etc. I choose to go on a night shift, just knowing I would see more action, right?
During the shift, it was pretty slow. I ws able to ask a lot of questions and if I pointed out something on a vehicle and questioned the legality of equipment i.e., night effects and/or license plate covers, the officer would ask "Should we pull them over?" lol
The last call of the evening was an assault call. We get to the scene and there are two females outside an apartment complex. We walk up and one of the females looks at me with a bewildered look and says "she was the one who attacked us". WTF?!?
The Officer laughs and says "Ma'am that's impossible because she has been with us all evening". The story soon comes out that these two females are cousins and they were in the car with a male friend, when one of the females begins to physically assault the male. He pulls over in the apartment complex, runs to an apartment and gets his Sister to come out to pull the two females out of his vehicle and proceed to beat them up. Long story short; one of the females has a warrant out for her arrest, so she proceeds to give the officer a fake name. The officer runs her info in this state and her claimed last state of residence. The officer is unable to find ANYTHING on this girl. One of the females gets transported for the assault and the one that no info can be located on, decides she wants to go to the hospital. While at the hospital, we tried different ways to secure her identity. A nurse assisted with a ruse, saying she could have her hospital stay covered by medicaid, but that they had to verify her identity first. (that didn't work)
The officer makes the female tell her story AGAIN and she manages to trip herself up and say her real name. By that time, we had spent four hours on this call. The Officer was PO'd. He yelled that she wasted everyone's time and that she was going to jail. At that point, the female begins to cry and asks me, ME, if there's any way I can help her. I simply told her "You shouldn't have lied to the Cops". Come to find out, this child had multiple warrants from two different counties and she was using her daughter's name to try to avoid being found out. Now, her daughters name is listed in her string of aliases....SMH. I had sooo much fun and it was very eye-opening. Funny thing is, it had never crossed my mind that she was lying. I encourage ANYONE who is interested in LE work to do a ride-along. It really gives you an idea of what you'll be dealing with first hand.
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