Why do we always get domestics at the end of the shift?

Question

WTF is up with these family violence calls - almost every night, with 15 minutes left on my shift, I'll get that same old dispatch to another damn wife beater (that's a baby mama beater to you street trash types) and I have to run code, driving at unsafe speeds (while I'm so tired from working car wrecks all day that I might as well be DUI) and then I have to deal with a drunk, angry lunatic, or several of them. And all I want to do is go home and crash on the couch with a can of spaghettios...

Do these gutless, scumbags time their beatngs with shift change? You can almost set your watch to it.

And while we're on the subject...what kind of cowardly, sissified loser hits a woman??? If you take a swing at a woman, you are official ball-less. Just carry a purse and wear a big bow in your hair - because only a woman hits another woman...

This is not my opinion of the human race. Most of the 70,000 people in my community NEVER call 911. And when they do it's because one of these animals victimized them at random. We go to the same houses over, and over and over again, whether it's for domestics, drugs, serving warrants...and mind you, not all of these houses are in the slums - many are in neighborhoods I could never afford. Scumbags are scumbags regardless of income, education or status.

Here's a clever answer:

"shut up you fu**ing bent pig, i hope you die of cancer. and your family get burnt alive"

Wow, did your "husband" teach you to curse like that in prison?

Sorry if daddy never loved you pal, but Yahoo can't help you there...

Overtime - it's okay, sure - but so is getting more than three hours of sleep - I was in the squadroom until 2, home at 3, and awake at 6 so I could go to court this morning - all on the account of a couple of losers who can't solve a simple problem without resorting to fists.

Dispatchers: My gaurdian angels - I would rather be without my Glock than my radio - and talk about under-appreciated - they deal with stuff you can't imagine - and they don't make TV shows or movies about them. Unsung heroes.

Answer 1

I'm not a deputy, just a dispatcher, but what you have said is very true. It never fails but all hell is gonna break loose at shift change. Just last night my guys had to fight a guy and spray him with 10 minutes left to there shift. Everyone ended up stuck doing paper work for about an extra hour.

Life just doesn't seem to be fair to those people that put there life on the line every day to serve and protect us as citizens. And as you have already stated, it isn't just anybody that gives problems. It's always the same people with the same BS.

When I started working at the Sheriff's office I had a huge heart. Now I have no simpathy for just about anyone. If they are not smart enough to get out of the **** on their own there isn't much we can do to help. Our job is to serve and protect, not to raise your kids or make your husband stop drinking.

I hope that your shift today goes better. Maybe so!

Answer 2

It has to do with the time of your shift change. As with most police departments, they try to give us somewhat of a normal life while working shift work. So our shift change is close to that of the civilan world with maybe an hour or two overlap.

Example: Most of the people get off work at 5 pm. My department holds shift change at 6 pm. That gives the criminals time to get home have a few beers and then start in on their victims. All just before you get off work. And our unsung heros (Dispatchers) can not hold that call for the next shift.

As for it being the same people you deal with on a daily basis, blame your local DA, Judges, Probation Officers, Etc. All you can do is make the report, arrest the offender, and testify in court. Its up to the above to put them away and keep them away. All assuming you make a good report.

And for the record, I agree with It'sme23!!!

Answer 3

Well depending on the shift, I worked 4-12, you get the people who got off their job at McDonald's or even a normal job and started to drink. I have had a domestics with two sons beating up their father because he would not buy them more beer. The wackos are always out and it always seems that when you want to go home you get a crisis intervention or something big where somebody goes to jail. Just remember that it is all OT!

Answer 4

Its just another day on the job, **** happens. If you have been on the job awhile you know how it goes, we don't work 9-5. If it bothers you that much maybe you should look at another career. Protect and serve, whenever, whatever, and I hope you are just blowing off a little steam. As professionals we know its never personal.

Answer 5

Maybe they timed it to delay your crash on the couch with your spaghettios................... After a hard day of arresting those wife beaten baby mama beaten sum bags you need a good steak and salad dinner. You need to keep your strength up for those cowardly, sissified, ball-less losers. Let me know if I can help................................. Ps I'm glad we have you on the force. Us women that wear big bows in our hair need you. Have a wonderful day...........................Check out my blog...........

Answer 6

If that is your opinion of the human race, then perchance it is well past time you change professions. Still ... appreciate your venting. You do end up with seeing the scum of society. Too, why is it that the women stay with the abusive men? There is a question, too. Humanity is weird.

Answer 7

Look, its not their fault that your shift change happens to be an hour after the bars close, which is of course, when they get home...

Answer 8

You go! I think the law should state "If you hit your woman, the police will hit you...with a bullet....right between the eyes" Then, eventually, you won't get those last minute phone calls.

Answer 9

Who agrees with me that agonyunkl^ is a complete a$$wipe and waste of human life??

Answer 10

They never bothered me since it's OT.