This is for all you current and former Cops or C/O's....?

Question

What is the worst situation that you have been in and how did it affect you?
Mine was a riot in one of our housing units. I responded and as I entered the dorm, all of the lights in the housing unit went out and the doors closed behind us( thats protocol) we were fighting in the dark. Fun Fun Fun. I am now much more aware of my surrounding because the riot could have been prevented.

Answer 1

My situation also involves going into a riot. One of my coworkers injured his hand, so I was asked to assist my supervisor in the gym to supervise the residents playing games. They were playing dodge ball, and two residents had a plan of going after each other to create a distraction while the 16 other residents attacked us and took our keys (they didn't know our keys didn't unlock the outside doors and so they couldn't get out.) As I got down to the gym, the two residents were coming towards each other, yelling and screaming and threatening to beat each other up. The 16 other residents began yelling and screaming and encouraging the residents to fight. After a few attempts to getting residents on the wall to go back to their rooms, everyone finally complied and there were no injuries and no one swung at anyone. That was probably the scariest thing that has happened to me on the job. I had only been on the job for a couple of months, so I evaluated whether I was in the right field or not. I decided I was and successfully advocated for there to be a maximum of 10 residents in the gym at a time, and a maximum of a 1:6 ratio of staff to residents. Before it was 1:10.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

There I was... an Interstate rest area. Just Me and that old one-eared dog. I was surrounded by 162 outlaw bikers that would have made Hells Angels look like Camp-fire girls. My Patrol car was on fire, My walkie battery was fading fast and I couldn't break squelch because the dispatcher was ordering a strawberry shake and fries over the air. I just had one round left in my custom-tuned, nickle-plated, S&W, .357 magnum with the Ivory grips. You know the ones than have an eagle on one side and a bear on the other that I carried in a Safariland level III clarino finished retention rig, but I digress,.

These bikers were armed and cranky because their beer was lukewarm. Somehow they figured it was my fault.

There was only one thing I could do. I shot myself in the head and left the dog to fend for himself.

Seriously, I've been in some situations that would make your shirt tail run up and down your back like a window shade. Take the lessons learned and forget the rest. Reliving those incidents causes harmful stress.

Answer 4

Funny, Out of all the crap I deal with on the street, in a town of 100,000, just south of Chicago. Nothing beets the hate, turmoil, and distrust that is created from my upper chain of command. Those people create the worst situations. I would rather deal with anyone on the street than know that the the good ol' boy network we have in charge is trying to destroy another good officer from within. It is ashame. Not only does it affect every good officer it affects the city. no one wishes to go out and do the job anymore, the way it should be done. What a shame. We have 100,000 people that count on us and we can not count on the 3 in charge.

Answer 5

I am retired and worked at a small department in Central California near Monterey.
On or about 21 Jan 91, 0244 am my partner and I entered the rear door of our small unoccupied Department and were at once confronted by a masked gunman wearing a ski-mask, green army jacket and grey pants; the gunman pointed a 9mm automatic pistol in ourfaces and yelled for us to get to the floor; we scattered to the back lot , took cover and the gunman ran out of the back of the same door we entered; I began firing at him while moving sideways to cover at a distance of ten feet and missed four times; I blew up two patrol cars and the gunman escaped...

The gunman was burglarizing the police department, no joke, lined up inside ths station were five pillow cases full of police gear and the pistol the gunman had was a stolen police pistol.

EV: LMAO.......

AND to wfssymwe, I agree, the good old boys...suck.

Answer 6

going to a domestic-winding up with a barricaded subject with a shotgun and not being able to reach anyone on my portable radio. Then when backup finally got there he screwed up and let the guy escape through a window- which I found out when I heard glass break behind me and a voice say "Now I got you." I dove under a bed for cover, and the suspect ran-we caught him about an hour later with no shots fired.

Answer 7

The worst two have been dog attacks. I got a bad pit bull bite on a welfare concern call. (Dog lived) Shepard actually sicked on me during warrant service (dead dog).

One shoot out that actually was more funny in retrospect, but the unknown at the time was brutal. Rural area, open terrain, unknown location of the suspect, but the occasional whiz of a bullet let us know he was around. Ended peacfully without the loss of life.

Answer 8

It was a ' Domestic Disturbance ' for me. The man grabbed a shotgun and pointed it at me. Had another officer not come up behind him and grab the gun away...I may have killed him. His gun wasn't loaded...but I didn't know that at the time. I thought...Well this is it...if I'm going to die...I'm going to draw and try to get off at least one shot before he kills me.

Another time is when a 15 yr old pulled a gun on me. From that time on...I treated everyone I stopped as a threat.

Answer 9

MINE WAS A SHOOT OUT AND A DEATH.

KNOW IT WAS HIM OR ME, BUT ALWAYS ASK WHY?

27 MISDEMEANOR WARRANTS AND HE WANTS TO SHOOT IT OUT?