Police Ride-along
On Monday 15 June I did one of many ride-alongs that I will be
doing. Some times they are boring, but for the most part they
are quite interesting. So far every police officer has been
very caring and considerate.
The officer told me that
when the guys are sitting in front of a house, I know where they
are. He knows many of the people in the area and they know
him. He and his wife want to open up a PAL Center. He
coaches high school football.
We had a drug check and five cars and eight officers responded on
North Milton Avenue.
We then had a traffic accident. The woman said to me when we
arrived, “Thank you for the quickness.” Two police cars
backed us up and one left and later another car came. The
officer advised them to use their cell phones to take photos of
the accident for insurance purposes. At the end the ladies
said to the officers, “Thank you, officers, kindly.”
We then went on a “stolen car” call. The officer Jones check
the State and two tow companies to see where the car might
be. He does not think that it was stolen.
The woman had her title with her and he used it to find the tag
number and then had the tags traced. The car was officially
stolen and towed to Loch Raven. It was a bail out.
Apparently her boy friend took the car and drove it some place and
was stopped by the police and when they stopped him, he fled on
foot. The officer Jones had to drop the case and turned it
over to another officer who was already handling it. He gave
the woman the contact information for the officer.
Around 12:15 we answered an armed robbery call. The victim
is a former police officer and gave the robber the battery to his
phone hoping to get his finger prints on it. The robber took
his ignition key.
We canvassed the area looking for keys and a cell phone
battery. We also went to the Johns Hopkins Metro station and
there contacted the Lexington Market station since that is where
the robber wanted to go. There was nothing on the monitor at
the subway station. One officer thought that he might had
ditched the sweater but another said that if he did, how would he
hide the gun.
The suspect was not belligerent. He was almost polite.
In 1972 there were 13 taxi cab murders.
We went to City Wide Robbery. The last time that the victim
was held up was in 1998 and he got relaxed about it.
When we were at the City Wide Robbery, a detective asked me, “Did
you get all that gray hair from today?” We arrived around
13:10. If a cab driver is robbed, he is the reporter and the
victim is the business.
The victim told us that in one robbery the man held the gun at his
ear and fired but it did not go off. He grabbed the gun and
was beating the man when a police officer came and jumped on him.
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