BBQ Chicken

So last night was fun. The police platoons have rotated again so I'm back with the officers I have worked with the most and there are several favorites on that shift we are extra nice to. We had a bunch of food in dispatch last night that we all brought in so we shared with a select few. 2 of my personal favorites I'll lovingly call tweedle dee and tweedle dumb, are never separated very long, everyone jokes that if they get to far apart it stretches the embilical cord. I swear it's like they have radar on each other. Anywho, they came in to eat and visit for a hot minute last night and after a couple minutes we got a breaking and entering call in progress in their zone. Of course tweedle dee was right in the middle of pulling out a piece of chicken to eat. Now don't worry, this skilled veteran officer still got his chicken and ran down the hall to his car chowing down, and both tweedles headed out of our lot lights and sirens to make it to the call. I found out later to my glee and entertainment that once they arrived on scene our boys went in foot pursuit of the suspect, tweedle dee bailed out of the car still chewing. Of course they caught their guy and had him in custody in no time, these officers know how to multi-task ; ).

Gotham has been busy the past few nights, all sorts of craziness going on. We had a young adult commit a violent crime on a family member and no sooner had the officers arrived on scene and started looking for the suspect than I took a call from a court employee that had the suspect and his mom in her office where he had come to turn himself in and had the weapon in the car. It was surprising to say the least. Good tho because the last time we had an incident like that happen on my shift I lost all my officers but 3 to the investigation out looking for the suspect and trying to control the crowd so I was stuck running a ton of other calls city-wide with 3 officers running the city...less than fun.

"Get somebody out here I'm being A HOE'D!" [no one I've encountered yet knows what that means but apparently it's happening in Gotham]

Here is a word to the stupid: if you call the police, keep in mind calls are sorted by priority, aka if you are not in immediate danger, the cops are going to the calls where someone is first and you might have to wait a few minutes or more sometimes a few hours. There are only so many officers to go around and if what you're calling about can wait, sometimes it will have to, what will not help is if when the police don't come fast enough for you, calling back and lying and reporting shots fired or some other nonsense that isn't happening...that my friends is illegal.