Re: an epiphimy
Bubbakat, 15 in one night is real good. I salute you! The state of Louisiana came out with this new and easier 10 page DWI report form. My first one took me 4 frickin hours to get through. The state also came out with a new and improved Crash report. The old one was a easy Front and Back simple report. Now a simple fender bender is at least 4 pages. If you have to add suppliment sheets, it can turn into a short book. So much for new and improved. I will say our State Troopers are on the ball for DWI investigation, which leaves us locals free to handle Bar Room brawls, Domestic Disturbances, Thefts, Parish and City Ordances, Federal & State Laws, etc. <br /><br />Trooper251, I also feel all Law Enforcement are trying to reach the same objective. I apoligise if I gave the wrong impression. Hopefully you may understand that some departments at times have strong points and weak points. For instance:<br />I have seen a local Sheriff's Deputy, call for a trooper to work a crash that he could have worked in the time it took for a Trooper to drive from 3 Parish's to work the Crash he was called for. Our City, has a Captain, that would have a cow before he'd let us pass a Crash in our jurisdiction onto a trooper, or Deputy, unless of course the Crash involved one of us. <br /><br />I understand that Our Trooper's also have many seperate departments, Bomb Squad, SWAT, Bank Robberies, Casino Investigations, etc. The one's we most come into contact with (as well as the majority of the Public) are Uniformed Highway Patrol. I also know they have many duties, but between our agencies, they have more training and have more funding to handle Highway situations, such as Crashes, Traffic Tickets, DWI's, and of Course Highway Drug Trafficing. Our Local agencies usually combine (1) or (2) from each agency to combine a task force to work Narcotics on the Highway (within their jurisdictions) as well as pool resources to help each other with problems within the cooperating agencies. <br /><br />Even though we rib each other back and forth, and I heard some petty remarks, at times. We are all there for each other! A call for help will not only be answered by anyone on duty, I and others have got out of bed to assist a call for help!<br /><br />The bumber sticker remark was just something that amuses me and others at times. I know in some States, the Troopers, or Highway Patrol, still handle calls for Domestics. In this area of the State of Louisiana, Troopers are not dispatched to a Domestic, etc. They will, however come to back us up, if they hear the call, as well as we will back them up, if we know about them being on a traffic stop out in the middle of nowhere. They are spread pretty thin! The problem we have of backing them up, is they are on their own radio frequency, if we don't spot their lights flashing, we have to get a phone call from their dispatcher, to ours, requesting us to check on them. Again their updated communication has not tricked down to us so far as funding. <br /><br />So far as my comment about I've been there, this city has 8 bar rooms within a 2 square mile radius. 3 Bar rooms within 2 blocks that can have 3 to 5 hundred people combinded within them. Now at 2am when the bars close, we have 1 Sergeant and 2 Officers on duty at that time. There is no way to catch them all, and if a fight breaks out, back up will come. There will be a Maximum of 5 deputies on duty in the Parish (if no one is sick or on vacation) 2 or 3 troopers which are not only assigned to this parish but 3 parishes at the time. Two other local city agencies close by with 1 officer each. So combine all that 13 Officers handeling 3 to 5 hundred people (now that just for 3 of the Bar rooms, not all 8) that is not good odds, and sorry folks, some drunks are going to get past us. <br /><br />Crab bait, there is no way of knowing if those two troopers that were there with you that night, were in charge of handeling up to 3 or 4 counties, and had handeling the lesser of evils going through their mind at the time. Most guys that wear the badge have good intentions, that years of service makes them make unpopular decisions in spit seconds, that others sit around and debate, without the knowledge of everything else that was happening at the same time that night, that they too were responsible for, or faced with acountability when anything went sour.<br /><br />Crab bait, here is a hint, most cops are at their best humor, when they are trying to hide their fear of something they know can get out of hand, quickly.<br /><br />So all, the best way I can say it is, even though we are earning a living, most are not in it for just the money, sometimes you just have to have a little faith that we are doing the best we can, with the best interest's of the majority in mind.<br /><br />Just one of GodsBeast's
