Slow but interesting

I have been patrolling the streets for a little over ten years now. And it amazes me every year how slow it gets on night shift once the weather starts to cool down. As soon as the night time temperature starts creeping below 65, everyone stays inside. Even most of the crackheads, dealers, and trannies stay indoors. This is especially true on the weekday nights. Now, nothing will keep people inside on Friday & Saturday nights. With everyone staying inside, it would stand to reason that more domestic violence and family disturbances would occur. I do not have any statistical data to justify this, but it does not seem to be the case.

Tonight, Ladybug who is still with me, and I checked by on an assault that had just occurred. It was the male's birthday and they were celebrating with his family out in Katy. The female, who is 5 months pregnant, got tired and wanted to go home. They left Katy, but the male was upset. He kept getting more upset as they drove home. Once they arrived home, the male really flipped out and started pushing the female, eventually shoving her down onto a bed. He then jumped on her, grabbed her hands, and put them around his neck telling her to choke him. Weird. Then he destroyed everything in the apartment except for the flatscreen TV. She was finally able to lock herself in the bathroom and call 911. Unfortunately, we arrived about 30 seconds after he left. She went on to tell us that he had been violent in the past. In the prior incident, he hit her in the head with the butt end of a shotgun. We then asked her if she wanted to press charges against this fine fellow. And she hesitated.

What? First he hits you in the head with the butt end of a shotgun and then later he pushes you around the apartment and destroys everything. Why are you not sure that you want to press charges? I understand that it must be scary. But sometimes you have to make the tough decision for you and your unborn baby. Fortunately, in domestic violence situations, we do not need the female's cooperation to press charges. The primary unit ended up writing a detailed report and filing a to-be warrant on the male with the District Attorney's office.

A little while later, we were dispatched to a Jack in the Box. Someone had fallen asleep in the drive through. We arrived to find a black male driver and a white female passenger both unconscious in the vehicle. The driver's side window was down, the vehicle was on, and the vehicle was in park. Ladybug went to the driver's side and woke up the driver. He woke up very quickly. Normally in these situations, it takes some effort to wake up the unconscious. Ladybug got him out of the vehicle and sent him around back of the vehicle to me. Ladybug then went to the female passenger. She was much harder to wake up. Indicating that she was more intoxicated than the driver.

As I started searching the driver, I began questioning him. I was trying to determine where he lived, where they had been that night, and just how intoxicated he was. He said that he lived on Missouri, close to South Beach. That was good news, they were close to home. He said that they had been out drinking. That was obvious. He said that he had pulled into the parking lot after realizing that he should not be driving in order to sober up. Good idea, bad execution. They had gone to a bar on Washington. I asked him where he thought he was, and after some thinking he responded with "Los Angeles". BUZZZZZ, wrong answer. Then he stated that he had recently returned to Houston after spending a month in Los Angeles. That sounded more reasonable. Throughout the questioning, he was very polite and seemed to be telling the truth.

I left him by the trunk of the vehicle and went to talk with Ladybug. She said that the female was conscious but still a little out of it. I asked the drunk female who the driver of the vehicle was and where he lived and she gave me the correct answers. I then asked Ladybug what she wanted to do. She was not sure. I told her that we had three options; 1. arrest them both for public intoxication and tow the vehicle 2. arrest the driver for DWI and the passenger for public intoxication and tow the vehicle 3. with the business's permission, leave the vehicle in the parking lot and give them a courtesy ride home. We decided on option three, leave the vehicle in the parking lot and then give them a ride home. Since he woke up quickly, he was not that intoxicated. He tried to get off the road and sleep it off, just made the poor choice of pulling into the drive through. He lived close by was honest with me when I asked him questions.

We put them in the backseat, and he was able to give me the correct directions to his house and we were there in 3 minutes. After we let them out of the backseat, he was very appreciative. He said that he was amazed that the police had treated him "like a human". He said that his previous encounters with the police had not gone so well. I told him to learn from the experience. Next time, take a cab home or have a designated driver.

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