Minor Foot Pursuits?

Picture this: you are downtown....drunk, cop rolls by and tries to talk to some guy who takes off running. Said cop bails out of the car and chases after him, leaving car behind and unsecured.....I'm going to go ahead and say right now I would REALLY have to resist the urge to not hop in that car. I mean of all the crimes to go to jail for...that one might be worth it.

Okay, okay, truth is I'm too pretty for jail so I'll have to keep myself as a law abiding citizen but it's a good thing I wasn't there when this situation arose the other night in Gotham. Meanwhile I was in dispatch listening to the officer call "minor" foot pursuit while chasing drunken idiot. Fyi, there really is no such thing as a "minor" foot pursuit but that was this officers way of saying "Let's not create a scene now, I don't need the entire PD down here, just need somebody to make sure another drunkie doesn't steal my car." Pretty entertaining stuff. The suspect was apprehended quickly and car was retrieved.

We just had a class of rookies graduate from the academy last week and hit the streets with their FTO's [field training officers] so I am expecting some good entertainment out of that, although so far I've only seen a couple of our current guys on shift sign on with a rookie in the car, maybe once we get to the opposite shift next week there will be more of them, and hopefully fun stories to follow. I've heard good things about this class though, everyone seems to think we will get some good officers out of the bunch, congrats and hats off to them for making it through the academy. I've seen first hand the stuff they put those poor kids through and it is no picnic. Well, until next time, stay out of those cop cars! Drivers seat or behind the cage :)