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June 20, 1999
Sorry it's been so long since my last entry. We just moved into a new house. The selling of our old house and buying of a new one has taken much of my time. I will NOT want to do it again. :)
Let me catch you up on some highlights over the past three weeks. It has been busy. Presently I am on a tact shift (We are secondary units on tact shifts, and are the last to be dispatched to calls). A couple of weeks ago I tried to stop a car, but the driver didn't want to go along with the program. He floored it and we were off. After a mile or so he pulled behind an apartment building in one of our project areas and ran on foot. I chased him into the woods where I tackled him. We both skidded on the ground landing on top of some plants. I didn't think much about the plants until a day later, long after putting the driver in jail. I began itching like crazy on my legs so I went back to the spot where I tackled the driver to get a closer look at the plants. Turns out they were poison ivey! I am still itching two weeks later, although it is almost gone.
The driver was on the bottom of the chaos when I caught him. I haven't seen him since putting him in jail, but I know he had to get Poison Ivey worse than I did.
Last night I stopped in to back up another officer on a traffic stop. When the officer tried to arrest the driver for Driving While Impaired, the fight was on. The driver resisted arrest at which time the passenger got out of the car to help his buddy. I had just enough time to help the officer handcuff the driver and then had to fight the passenger. I ended up having to spray the passenger with pepperspray, running after him and tackling him. In the process I tore up my left arm a little. My arm got caught under the passenger when I tackled him after spraying him. We skidded on the asphalt of the road with my arm under him.
Things seem to go in spurts in this job. I may go for a month or longer and not have to get into a fight, and then it seems I have to fight with everyone I arrest for a week or so. It may be conincidence, or just plain bad luck for the period of time bad guys want to fight.
Fighting is part of the job. You come to expect it each time you arrest a person. I find myself expecting a fight each time I arrest someone. It keeps ready for the instances where I do have to get physical. On the flip side, if I go a long time without having to fight it almost comes as a relief, or a vent, when I do have to fight. You expect a fight, expect a fight, and then BOOM, it happens. You find yourself in a fight that you have been expecting.
I don't want people to fight me, but think about it. If you have in mind that each person I arrest may fight (you have to in order to be ready), tensions build up when it doesn't happen. Perhaps it's just the way my mind works, and it's always a relief when people go peacefully, but the realization that there are people who would hurt me if they had the chance demands that I be ready for a fight during an arrest.
Thanks to all for listening. Til next time....
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