#DDMS Episode 10: Adventures in Law Enforcement: Trauma Kits, High-Speed Pursuits, and the World of Detectives

Imagine being jolted awake by a late-night call, plunging into the dark woods, hunting down a suspect involved in a gunshot incident! That's how my week started, a stark reminder of the importance of being prepared for any eventuality - from unexpected stakeouts to medical emergencies. So, today, we're going to delve into the world of trauma kits, tourniquets, and vital medical training, underlining their significance in the field. 

Ever wondered how fine the line is between escalating a situation and maintaining safety during high-speed pursuits? Drawing from real-life experiences, including a recent event where a deputy's actions sparked a lively debate, we explore this delicate balance. This incident opens up discussions about vigilance, quick decision-making, and the readiness necessary when responding to such calls. 

Lastly, we venture into the realm of detective work, quite a leap from law enforcement. Patience, report writing skills, and effective court appearances - all integral parts of a detective's life. To lighten things up, I'll share an amusing anecdote of a suspect and a 20-year hammer. Also, a big shout out to our growing Patreon supporters and a warm welcome to our new chat feature for listeners. Buckle up for another thrilling episode packed with insights, lessons, and debates from the frontline of law enforcement.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Warning, warning, warning. This content may be sensitive to some. If you feel the need to leave, it is completely understandable. Content may contain examples of death, suicide, sexual content and other shit. We don't know what we're gonna get into. This is not to offend anyone or upset anyone on purpose. This isn't your typical deputy dane, so listen at your own risk, sit back and enjoy Good morning everybody.

Speaker 2: 0:45

Welcome to the deputy dane morning show. I appreciate all y'all for being here. We got some stuff to get into. I really don't know what we're gonna get into, but we'll get into something.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Sit back, oh oh, yep, there's a sirens. I think we're all gonna be detained. Sit back and enjoy the show.

Speaker 2: 1:06

Good morning everybody. It's one week to Halloween, my favorite time of the year. I love this time of the year Big into Halloween, love all. Zombies, ghouls, ghosts, monsters, all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, crazy. Last night got called out to. So it's also hunting season in our area, so I got called out.

Speaker 2: 1:28

Last night A hunter went out. Poor guy bought this land Pretty much just to go hunting not from the area, so he bought this land to go hunting. As he's kind of out and about, one of our local turds decides to go try and steal some items from his truck and in the process he kind of gets caught and then they chase after the dude. One of the items that the guy steals is a pistol. He ends up turning around and shooting at the owner that he stole the pistol from. Now, that would be a bitch. You get shot by your own gun, I'm not gonna lie. So we went out.

Speaker 2: 2:10

I got called out late to it. I'm on call. So when I get called out to these things, a lot of this stuff's already kind of happened. And I get there and then blah, blah, blah. Well, by the time I get there we're getting a drone. The drone goes up, sees a heat signature. They go off into the woods looking for the said heat signature.

Speaker 2: 2:30

You know, when you're in the woods at night, everything makes a noise, especially around this time when all the leaves are falling, they're drying out and man hear everything About. Shot 17 bunnies last night. Not really it's a joke, but you go in these woods you can't see anything and you know, there you go, we're out looking for the dude. Don't find the dude, I end up getting some. Well, I can't go too much in the detail but, that being said, I was out there for hours walking through the woods in the dark until my flashlight started to give out. It kind of sucked being in the woods when you have no flashlight and there's supposed to be a dude with a gun that's already shot at the homeowner, but it is what it is. So yeah, I was up all night doing that. Got home, went to sleep, woke up, started mowing, getting safe, done around the house. Today it's Sunday, about to start the week. We had fun this morning doing a little live on the tractor. I had a lot of fun. Hopefully everybody that joined in was having fun with us.

Speaker 2: 3:36

But, that being said, someone's asked me to kind of start talking a little bit about medical things going on and you know, with everything going on, it would be good to know medical stuff. You know, youtube some medical stuff, buy some kits, buy some things to be ready. You never know. I'm not one of those guys that conspiracy theory dude. I am somewhat of a prepper. I like be ready. You never know when shit's going to happen and things are looking bad. Things are not looking good, but, yeah, it just seems to be getting worse and it looks like it's going to continue to get worse. So you need to make sure you know. Watch some YouTube videos on medical stuff. Get some quick clot, get some stuff like that. Get a good medical bag I need to actually get me a better one, but one of the things you definitely need is a trauma kit and you have that. Have a bunch of your stuff, but a big thing you need is tourniquets. You can't have enough tourniquets.

Speaker 2: 4:41

So when I first got into being a fire medic and went through EMT school and did all that, you know you never put a tourniquet on. This is telling you how old I am. This was like 2006. I went through EMT school. You didn't put a tourniquet on. Tourniquets were last ditched, like ditched at first, because at that time we thought it causes a necrosis of your cells and you're going to die, you're going to lose your arm, you're going to do all that stuff.

Speaker 2: 5:14

But when I went through the I guess you could say, quote unquote police academy, we went to that. We took a class and this class was all like trauma, first aid for law enforcement officers. Yeah, through the class it got real weird, real weird. We're sitting there and then all of a sudden you're reading the slides and then all of a sudden a slide pops up to the dew point in your gun and it's like it shot your partner in the leg and then you have to crawl under the desk, put a tourniquet on his upper thigh up in the nether region. You know what I'm saying, boys, you know what I'm saying? Get up in there. So you get up in there and then you put a tourniquet on and then you watch a couple more slides, then they'll have to take it off and then it keeps going like that the whole class. You just sit there and have people put tourniquets on your nether regions, you put tourniquets in their nether regions, but it's changed so much, you know.

Speaker 2: 6:07

And at the end of one of our tests the class was on the law enforcement. First aid thing was oh, you had to drag your partner and you had to do all that stuff. You'd put a tourniquet on him, they'd put a tourniquet on you and then you'd have to drag them, but then you have to put it on each other and you have to run from one side of the building to the other and do all these tasks and stuff. This time your legs get numb. It really sucks. But they made it real clear that you need to have a tourniquet and you need to know how to use that tourniquet.

Speaker 2: 6:40

Train with that tourniquet, put that tourniquet on, take the tourniquet off, train with it. Don't leave it on for hours or anything. Don't do anything like that, but put it on, train with it. Understand, it's going to be uncomfortable. It doesn't feel amazing when your arm goes numb. But I'm saying put it on for a minute, take it off. You know you're not going to die, you're not going to lose an arm. Don't do it over and over and over. I mean, be responsible people. I think you can figure that out.

Speaker 2: 7:05

So yeah, they were saying that a lot of people. It's all a mindset. I'm a big mindset person and I think everybody that listens or hangs out with me on my lives knows I'm a big mindset person. You have to have a good mindset. You have to. Your mindset could change so much stuff, you know, when it comes to your tourniquets and stuff, or when you get shot. When you get shot and you think that, uh-oh, that's it, I'm going to die. Well, that's your mindset, that's what's going to happen. You have to get out of that mindset to not think every time you get shot not saying every time I've never been shot. But you got to get out of that mindset that if you get shot, it's over. And that's what they train you with this and they train you with the tourniquets. You got to train with tourniquets Be good with the tourniquet, learn how to use the tourniquet and just keep going through it. Um it, I don't know. I can't preach it enough.

Speaker 2: 8:11

They were saying how many people die from Thinking it's over, I'm done, I can't do anything, and how many of them could have been saved if they would have applied a tourniquet to themselves. There's been a lot of officers that have lost their life because, instead of applying a tourniquet to themselves, they sit there and they go. Oh, this is it. You have to train with them, you have to be prepared to use them. 90% of all combat wounds and fatalities Overseas they they die before they get medical treatment. And how many of those could a tourniquet save? You know, and they're there's so, and how much numbers it's saving you. Just it's mind-blowing.

Speaker 2: 8:51

You know you get shot in your leg and you're for moral and you put a tourniquet on. You can bleed out quick. If you get shot, you're for moral real quick. So if you can stop the blood flow to it till you can get to a hospital, it's gonna. It most likely it's gonna save your life. I can't guarantee that. I'm not a tourniquet expert or any of that. You just have to. You just have to train, be ready with it. That's all you can do. You can't. You just have to be ready. I've got a couple more tourniquets that I've ordered. No, we went kind of on it. We don't intend to tourniquets. You think I'd be sponsored by them or something, but I'm not. I'm trying to think of other things to do.

Speaker 2: 9:31

In the podcast, like I said, someone asked me to bring up medical stuff and it's kind of hard to do medical stuff on this aspect, because I'm on a podcast. You can't see me and here I am talking about well, let's do this, let's do that, but you never know. You know this. It was a crazy week this week. I ended up getting a guy that was wanted out of two states. He's on his third strike in California, so you never know what that could mean. I mean they could put him away. You know some of his charges were kidnapping, some of them Several violent tendencies, charges out of Montana and out of California. He's a wanted dude. You never know what they're gonna do in those situations. So you have to be prepared and maybe in medically trained and stuff you have to be prepared because you never know. That guy could have turned around and shot me as soon as he saw me because he knew this gigs up. But you know it is kind of a cool deal. We got that dude. Fresno California wanted the guy so well, he's arrested and now they're waiting on extradition. Cool deal put a dude away. That's a bad dude Trying to hide out In the middle of nowhere where I'm at no, no, sir, not today and then come to find out a person that's in the blue line was hiding them out.

Speaker 2: 10:51

So I'm gonna see what I can do about that. I can't go into too much detail until I'm done with it, but I'm I'm gonna figure this out, I'm gonna get it, I'm doing it. So I don't, I don't know. It's like going from one thing to the next thing. Well, last night my wife and I were at a we're at Walmart and I've been noticing it's, it's getting, it's getting crazy and it's.

Speaker 2: 11:16

It's hard for me to say, because I'm playing on tiktok on my phone when I'm at work, but I don't sit there as someone's like trying to talk to me, or am I right there in someone's face Just filming videos instead of doing my job? But it's mind-blowing nowadays how like you can go to Walmart and someone to be on their cell phone Just playing on their cell phone, or they have their their headphones on, but they can't even hear you. It's stalking like I. I was always Working in those jobs and you had to talk to people, you had to wave to people, you had to ask them if they need help. You can't do that with these people. You even try to say, hey, can you get me help? And then they just keep going. And, by the way, if you're One of those employees and you're somehow listening to my podcast right now I keep doing it you just don't worry about that guy, that's alright.

Speaker 2: 12:00

You're doing good, guy or girl, but it's crazy just sitting there playing on your phone, having your headphones in, and then like, look at somebody, like why are you talking to me? When they start talking to you, it's like you work at Walmart. You already cut out all the cashiers and make us go to Check ourselves out and you have some dude that hates life there at the damn door that checks our Receipt and doesn't actually look at anything. They look at it for a split second and then they go, oh yep, that's it, you're good to go. You know, like how, how is this? How is this a deal? How are you? You didn't even do anything. You didn't look at it.

Speaker 2: 12:38

Say, my back, my bags, you just checked if I had a receipt. I'm gonna start taking Ex like old receipts and just show it to them see if they do anything. I've always wanted to do that and I've also wanted to take a Pin. You know how they check your hundred dollar bills and your $20 bills with the, the counterfeit thing. I think I'm gonna start checking that. So when they check it and then they give you change, I'm gonna check their shit. We're like, oh, good job guys, good job, you gave me real stuff. I do appreciate that. I do appreciate that you have. You have given me the A change back. That's not counterfeit bills. I do appreciate that. Hold on one second, or you don't even know. I'm gonna say hold on one second, but I'll be right back. You won't even know, hold on, here we go. So I know we're kind of jumping around today, guys. I Don't even know where to start today. I don't know. It's been one of those weeks where I've just gotten, got a whole lot of rest. I'm not feeling like myself this week, but it is what it is. I'm still trying to get this stuff out. If I gotta stay consistent, I know I am if I don't stay consistent, that I'm not gonna keep up doing it. So I need to stay consistent. So we had we had some fun. Well, I had some fun at work.

Speaker 2: 13:52

We have a dad and a son that works at our agency. The son just became a deputy. He became the courtroom deputy just so he can get some training. Dad is an old Deputy. It's been here for a long time, used to be the under-sheriff good dude, but it was funny. So son loves traffic, loves everything traffic. You, you want to know traffic? He's gonna tell you about traffic. He wants to pull cars over all day. He wants to ruin people's day by writing them citations. I'm not that guy, but he loves it, loves it. So we got into talking and Dad was telling son to never act like this officer that pulled over this car.

Speaker 2: 14:34

Now, in the video of this car, I'll kind of give you the rundown. You can kind of watch the video too. I guess this guy had been wrongfully accused of a murder for 16 years. He was in prison. He got released and everyone's trying to throw it. Well, he immediately got released and he got pulled over and the cops killed him. No, there's a three-year gap there. So it's not like he all of a sudden came out and cops are like oh, there he is, and how are you gonna know when you pull someone over if that's that guy was already going through that? It's a weird deal.

Speaker 2: 15:05

Long story short, there's a deputy sitting on the highway. This car comes by him at a hundred is what he says. So the car pulls by him at a hundred. He gets behind him, flashes his lights. He doesn't immediately get over. It takes him a while to get over and then he gets over To the middle lane and then gets back over to the left lane and he's kind of acting wonky.

Speaker 2: 15:28

And if you are in this profession, or even if you watch enough cop shows and stuff, at this point your radar is going off. Why is he back and forth? Why is he not just pulling over? There's plenty of room. There was traffic that day, but you could. There's plenty of times he could have made it to the shoulder to stop, but something was going on. He's going a hundred miles an hour. He's doing a weird, weird stuff. You never know what that's gonna turn into. So finally, he Doesn't just get over, he gets right the fuck over. So he went from I'm not pulling over, I'm not pulling over, I'm getting right the fuck over. My cop mind is going right now. He has been trying to get his gun and now he has his gun ready. So he gets the car over, gets out of his car after he tells dispatch. This is where I'm at, this is what I got gets out of his car and Starts yelling at the guy get out of your car, get out of your car now.

Speaker 2: 16:30

This is where our debate started. Dad at our office said he escalated it by yelling. Now, son says, son says a lot of funny things. Sons like, nope, he's in the Valley of Rome, funny shit. So they're getting an argument about it. And then I had I had to put my two cents into it At this point. You didn't pull over. When I told you to pull over your Something's not right, I'm gonna think something's up. I Said I'd probably yell them to get out of the car. Get out of the car. Let's, you know, get it, get out of the car. Let's talk. Well, the father at our office. The dad at our office says no, he should just went and got his license and all that stuff. Well, the internal and me says something's going on. I'm not just gonna walk up to that window if I don't have to, I want I'm out of the car. Of course the kids like yep, hey, shouldn't have been spading. It can't make these people up. They're fun. I love my office, but it's just fun listening these people argue.

Speaker 2: 17:35

So If you watch the video, he gets the guy out. The guy's saying a lot of wonky stuff. Let's, let's, let's listen to this. Hold on one second. All right, let's listen to this, okay.

Speaker 2: 17:59

So at this point, if you watch the video, there's a couple things. I don't like doing the sideline quarterback stuff, but there's some things. So in my mind I already told you I thought he might have a firearm or something like that. This deputy gets up screaming at him get out, get out, get out. And first of all they're like right on the damn line of the highway, which is making me nervous as hell. So he walks up to the car yelling at him to get out, get out, get out. But at this point he doesn't. He's not bladed off, he's not ready to fly, pull his firearm if he has to. I've already told you the whole reason that I'd be coming out this way is because You've kind of given me that feeling. You've given me that inkling that something is up. You aren't pulling over for a reason. You pulled over real quick all of a sudden. After not pulling over and then Not acting right, something's not right here.

Speaker 2: 18:53

There's also a way that you have to watch people how they get out of vehicle. You can tell that they have something on them, whether it be a firearm or something it's called like a C posture and they get out of the vehicle and they have this posture and you see something's up. This guy gets out of the vehicle and he has somewhat of that posture. So he's hiding something. I don't know what he's hiding at this point. This officer doesn't know. So he tells him to Get back here, put your hands on the car. Well, he says I ain't doing shit. So here we go, let's see what happens. They kind of getting a little tussle here. They start arguing. They're right next to the truck. Here we go.

Speaker 3: 19:28

I Don't care. Step to the rear of this vehicle.

Speaker 2: 19:33

He has his tazer pulled now.

Speaker 3: 19:36

In the name of law, the state of Georgia, step back here. Now you're getting to taste so he's sitting there.

Speaker 2: 19:41

He says in the name of who? He says Georgia. He's acting a little wonky.

Speaker 3: 19:47

Put your hands on the back of that truck. Do you see that? Put your hands on the back of that truck.

Speaker 2: 19:55

He's doing some weird stuff. You watch the video, see, he's not putting the hands on the back of the truck like you think he would. He's putting his hands kind of aside so he can look at them. There's there's a lot to it, but let's let's listen a little bit more.

Speaker 3: 20:08

Turn around 34 KMS to me, compliant. Your name is office of staff sergeant. Orders with this Camden County Sheriff's office, camden County. Put your hand behind your back. Do I have a? Do I have a warrant? Wait, wait, no, no, no. It puts your hands behind your back as you're getting tased. I'm telling you that right now Because you are under arrest for speeding and reckless driving. I'm not driving, nobody was hurt. How was I speak? You passed me doing a hundred miles an hour. Okay, so that's a speeding ticket, right, sir? Tickets in the state of Georgia, criminal offenses.

Speaker 2: 20:50

I don't have so the guys asking some questions, fine. Now he's asking him in a shitty manner, whatever it happens. You know I'm never happy when I get pulled over either. So he asked isn't that a Citation? In some states you have a thing called a super speeder or a reckless driver or anything. 20 over the speed limit. It's all over. I don't know Exactly what Georgia's law is, so he's he's already made it determined.

Speaker 2: 21:15

You're driving like a fool, you're gonna go to jail. I'm sure he has that right. I'm sure Georgia has that law. Hold on, let's look it up real quick. Hold on one second. Okay, I'm getting a bunch of mixed things. But it's saying every ticket Citation in Georgia is a misdemeanor. It's also saying that at that speed he would be considered a super speeder, which could land him 12 months in jail or fine of a thousand dollars because of the high speeds. So, that being said, this officer is already determined they are taking him to jail. There is no pass go. There is no, any of that. You're going straight to jail. He's already made a decision. So he pulls his taser out, he tells the dude put his hands on his back. The guy's not complying at this point. So let's listen.

Speaker 3: 22:00

Ticket in Georgia. You do now why you passed me doing a hundred miles and what I'm not going to hands behind your back. Yes, you were going to jail, hey.

Speaker 2: 22:12

Okay.

Speaker 2: 22:13

So he has deployed the taser at about I don't know five feet. If you don't know anything about tasers, tasers has. The amount of spread is really what's gonna get you your what? You see the guy falling down, the guy going oh shit, and all that. There's not enough spread in this. He hits the dude, he locks up, but there's not enough spread to really make this guy go. Completely a Mobile, I guess you would say, or fall down or any of that. So what you can actually do is then you can drive, stun them. What's drive? Stun them? You've already shut the prongs out. Well, as it's going, you could move the taser, touch his leg, and now you've created a big gap between three points and now it's gonna cause a lot of locking up and then he'll go down.

Speaker 2: 23:01

This cop doesn't do it. I understand this guy's kind of doing what he's doing, so let's listen a little bit more. So at this point the guy turns around and starts slapping away At the lines. You can knock those lines out by doing that. He's slapping away the lines, cop and him start to wrestle. As they're wrestling, they're kind of back and forth, they get each other in a headlock. Well, then this guy gets his upper hand on the cop. You know he's been in prison. He looks like he's pretty prison fit, I'm not gonna lie. And they, they're wrestling, they're doing stuff, they're doing what they. At this point you You've made that decision, you stepped up. So Our debate at work was the father at the office said it would have never got here if he didn't come out yelling.

Speaker 2: 23:55

I don't know that. I don't know if he's yelling because of the sound on the highway, I don't know. I do believe that it would have got here either way. This dude is not gonna go to jail. This dude is he's hiding something. I know he's hiding something. I said that since the very beginning. I've already seen this video, but I've said it since the very beginning. I won't really go too much into the video.

Speaker 2: 24:16

They wrestle for a while and you'll hear him wrestling. What a one point he gets the cop. Let me find the body cam and you'll listen what he has. At this point he has the officer bent like they're. They're face to face, they've been in headlocks battling each other and then he gets upper hand and, like, pushes the cop by his like head and he's pushing them back over. So he's bending backwards. Now let's hear what this find outstanding citizen, a pillar of the community, is doing as he's Pushing this cop back. Okay, so they're wrestling a little bit like I said, they've been in headlocks and stuff.

Speaker 2: 24:54

Well, the cop grabs his, is a little bowtown and starts trying to take out his leg. Now, listen. So he was saying hold on one second, listen. Okay, this is here we go. He's trying to hit him. So at this point he's got the cop completely bent over backwards, pretty much. So he's got him bent over backwards. Yeah, he's saying yeah, bitch, yeah bitch. At this point the cops try to tase him. Ineffective. He's taking his baton out, is hit him in the leg. Ineffective, the guy's getting up her hand on him. The cop ends up grabbing his firearm and fires two into the dudes I think it's side, I don't know, it's hard to tell and shoots him. So he shoots him in the side and At this point the guy kind of falls down and they eventually render aid.

Speaker 2: 25:55

At this time the cops still trying to come to from his battle he had I don't know, I'm not the cop, I wasn't there, I don't know. So again At work, the dad figure says it would never would have got to this point if he wouldn't been yelling. Son is just saying he was in the valley, wrong for speeding, he should have never sped. So we're kind of back and forth on that. Well, later on, as they're doing CPR and they're doing everything on this guy, they pull out a bag of marijuana. I don't know if marijuana is legal there or not and I don't know. Maybe with this guy's history he doesn't want to go back to prison, so he's gonna do anything to go back to prison.

Speaker 2: 26:33

I haven't really looked at this case. It's still a new kind of case coming out. I don't know if there's a firearm on him. I don't know if there's a firearm in the vehicle. I don't know. What I'm saying is, the whole time was hinky, he's behind him. I said hinky, so he's behind him.

Speaker 2: 26:47

Car doesn't immediately pull over, act and funny, goes to the middle lane, then pulls back over to the left lane and then finally gets over. It's one of those things that like, I don't know, I'm not there. It'd be hard for me to say, oh, you did wrong or you did right and I wasn't there, but it, I don't know. That's a pretty crazy deal right there. I'll tell you that much. But that being said, the man did lose his life, unfortunately. It's never awesome at this. Cop didn't want to do that. He's just driving. This guy drives past him like a fool and it gets this point.

Speaker 2: 27:20

If the dude would just complied, he probably went to jail, and he might not even went to jail. He might have still got a warning at this point. The cop would just want him in cuffs because something's going on. I'm with the cop on this. I want him out of the car and I'm gonna detain him. Something's going on. The fact that you didn't get over immediately. Something is going on. If you, if your law states that you can take him to jail, you have the right to do all that. I don't know. I'm not necessarily saying I'm I stayed, I'm gonna pull him out and so I'm gonna be approaching his car with caution. I'm not gonna be going up there and I don't know. It's a weird deal. You never know until you that situation.

Speaker 2: 27:54

That's one of those things I don't like being on the recliner quarterback or sideline quarterback. I don't like being that guy. But it was just fun that it kind of got. He kind of got everybody ruffled at work and I was just sitting there fueling the fire. It was great. We went to lunch and they're like arguing in the restaurant and I just kept it going. It was fun. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it.

Speaker 2: 28:15

Also, georgia had a thing where the dude got a 1.4 million dollar speeding ticket 1.4 million or something like that. Where did I goI don't know. I don't know how it came to 1.4 million. That's outrageous. I don't know. I think it was a mess up. Yeah, I don't know. I think it was one of those E machines, I don't know. We, where I'm at yours, we're still old handwritten stuff. We don't have any of that fancy. That fancy stuff. But yeah, so he got a 1.4 million dollar ticket. I think they knocked it down to what it's supposed to be. I don't think it gave him a 1.4 million dollar fucking ticket, because that'd be outrageous, outrageous.

Speaker 2: 29:15

So one of the things I talked about in our live the other day was if you subbed to me on ticket talking, it gets you these extra pictures and stuff. One of the pictures is my wife sitting in my lap and I am in a bunny outfit, not sexually sitting in my lap, just sitting in my lap. So she's sitting in my lap. I'm in this bunny outfit. So my wife and I this is when we first moved to another state I got on the volunteer fire department I'm hanging out having a fun time Easter came up and I was the rookie at this department. So they told me, hey, let's make Dane wear the bunny outfit. He's a funny guy, let's make him wear him. So I was like, alright, whatever dude. So I put this bunny outfit.

Speaker 2: 29:53

I'm a bigger dude, not just height. Yes, I'm a girthy dude, it's alright, but height wise I was too big for this bunny outfit. So my wife has helped me put on this bunny outfit because she was gonna come watch us. We were gonna go to the this baseball field and let the kids search for eggs, and so we're doing all that. I'm in this bunny outfit and we're taking pictures later. And as soon as I put it on I was like something's not right and my wife looks and she starts laughing. Pretty much I had a camel toe from from this. We, whoever this costume was made for, is made for a short person. And yeah, needless to say, that seam separated the genital region. One went on one side of the same, one went on the other side of the same it.

Speaker 2: 30:53

I became very popular with the the mothers at the thing. It was quite funny. I'm over there in this bunny outfit and giving everybody a nice little camel toe. Everybody at the the department thought it was funny. But here we go, it's Easter and I'm doing all this. So, yeah, that's the funny outfit with the funny picture. Every time someone posts that picture it just makes me chuckle a little bit, because that's what that picture is, reminds me of it, reminds me of it being way too short for me. So it was all up in my nether regions, kind of like those tourniquets again and yeah, yeah, fun, fun, fun times. Whoo, yeah, I just wanted to give a little back story. So that way, if someone posted on my lives and stuff, you guys kind of know why chuckle and it's crazy.

Speaker 2: 31:43

We've made it to 10 episodes on this podcast, this podcast. I know that we're kind of all over the place. I'm still trying to figure things out. This week I wasn't prepared just with everything going on. You know I had stayed late. I got called out for a manhunt, I stayed late the other day to get a dude with warrants. Just been a whole lot going on. Plus I had a lot of days off because I had to take the babies because my wife was working.

Speaker 2: 32:08

But it is what it is. You in this profession, you never know. So, and that's that's one thing I can't stand with some of these cops. They, they want to be cops until it's time to be a cop. They want to go home at six o'clock, because they used to go home at six o'clock, but sometimes it doesn't happen. There's a lot of times that doesn't happen. So if you're thinking about getting a law enforcement, be prepared. Be prepared for that, because it's not always going home at Six, it's not always going home at those times and yet be prepared for that. Yeah, you might have planned something for your family, but your family has to know and unfortunately that's what causes a lot of divorces in this profession is, sometimes families can't adjust and it's a lot to adjust. You're asking a lot of your spouse and of your family to suck it up and Be okay with it, but well, I don't know, it is what it is I guess, but uh yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:07

And then Some people have asked him about how to be a detective and how to do that. And then I saw one of my buddies that's on tiktok. He's actually been. He went to investigate your school with me. He was at the big conference. I was that recently.

Speaker 2: 33:19

Guys, if you want to get law enforcement and you want to be a detective or you want to be the next level, whatever it is, if you want to be a canine, or if you want to be a SWAT member or you want to be a medic, whatever it is, start working immediately towards that. I mean not not when you're an FTO. Don't go to FTO and start telling your your dude, that's training, I want to do this. And then start just being annoying. Learn how to do your job but at the same time, when those classes come up, take those classes. If you want to be a detective, here's what a detective is. Okay, you're that guy. That type of people are gonna make fun of you because you take time to make sure your reports are done, thorough and you make them done right. So the whole time you're doing them, you're reading over them, you're adding stuff, you're making sure you got everything when you're on scene, you're knowing people because you're taking longer to do stuff. And this is before you, detective, I'm just talking normal. You might have a partner with you that wants to just get in, get out. It's a stupid case, but you never know where that case is gonna go. You never know. One case could lead to another thing, to another thing. You never know. So make sure you take your time on these scenes. Look at everything. Remember what it felt like. You know I'm not saying remember the. Remember the barometric pressure and the humidity, what the humidity was at the state. Also, remember of the pores and you don't Remember things that are being pertinent. Put in your report a lot of this Going to court. As long as if your report is on point, a lot of the times the defense attorneys will just plead their people out. Now, if you come in with some BS report, ah, I, deputy Dane, arrived on scene, saw a drunk guy Arrested, said drunk guy, yeah, there we go. You're gonna get eaten alive in court because you have nothing to back what you have done. So, on the way you can back it is them to ask you a thousand questions in court. Now, if you write a report, and in this report you put why you arrested them, the things he was saying, the odor she smelled like the things that messed up. You're gonna go a lot further. You know there's a lot of cases that they plea on with me because my, my report was good and they see, well, we're not really gonna go very far with this but we'll do what we have to. And then every now and then you get that dickhead Suspect that that thinks that they're gonna beat you. I got a court case coming up on a gunshot. The dude thinks he's gonna beat me. I have enough evidence to prove he did it. But it's just kind of court. Now We'll see what court does and see where it goes from there. But be that guy. If you want to be a detective, be that guy. Stay late on scenes, make sure that you're getting everything you can because again, you never know and that'll come in handy later. Never I Was working one.

Speaker 2: 36:01

This guy, he has been convicted. They again, if you're in law enforcement then you know they. This dude has been a turd for a long time and then they gave him a 20-year hammer. What a 20-year hammer means is we're gonna let you out on probation and all these little drug things. So you have to check in weekly and do a drug test and do all this stuff and as long as you're a good boy for so many years, then you'll be okay and they're. All these charges will be dropped. But if you mess up, you're getting 20 years. Now he's already messed up.

Speaker 2: 36:34

I had to give him Narcan twice. He was gonna die. He was running from us. He says gonna kill a bunch of people. I end up getting a tip he's at a house, go in the house. He's unresponsive.

Speaker 2: 36:45

Not, we'd Narcan him twice, bring him back, ask him questions. He was mad at me. He's like man, if you do, you should let me die. I'm not going to prison at this point. He thought he's gonna go for 20 years. So did I. I was like hell, yeah, let's put this dude away. He's a turd stealing from people. I don't like thieves. I'm sorry, I don't. No, I'm not sorry. If you're a thief, f you. So he Does his thing. They give him six months in prison and tell him if he does it again, he'll do us 20 years. He told me kind of laughing he goes. That was kind of easy, he goes. But I'm telling you right now I'm not going back. Either I take one of y'all with me or I'm ending my own self and I was like, oh great, awesome. But this is a case where more ended up from just a little bit.

Speaker 2: 37:36

I've been looking for this guy. He's been hitting a bunch of places and I'm trying to get enough evidence on on this. So we go to another house. I heard he had been going to this house and I go to this house. I talked to this guy.

Speaker 2: 37:48

This guy brings me into his house. While we're sitting there I see something out of place and it's a bow. It's a hunting bow. This guy's not a hunter. This guy does not have bows. His how it's nasty. He's got motorcycle parts everywhere. He's a known meth head. He's got a motorcycle in his dining room in pieces. The house has no lights in it. It's a typical tweaker house. You can smell it for anybody that once you've done it, you can smell it.

Speaker 2: 38:23

So I go in this house and I'm talking with the dude and I'm noticing this bow and anybody else would go in and talk to him and be done. But I was like, no, where'd you get that bow? Well, I got that bow from so-and-so. He sold it to me for a hundred bucks. That bow is a lot more than a hundred dollars, I go. So who sold it to you? He told me long story short. That comes back to my dude. I filed more charges on him. Then he gets that 20-year hammer. Well then this guy lies in court and then I get him for perjury. And then he got in trouble for perjury and all that stuff and lying in court and he's an idiot. But that's what I'm saying. You never know.

Speaker 2: 38:58

Take the time, look at things. Take the time to actually go. Okay, let me piece this together while I'm here and see what else I can find. If you're sitting there and you see tracks going off into the woods, follow those tracks, see where those tracks lead. You might find stuff. The dude last night that shot at the hunter. We ended up after looking for him for a while. I start looking at other things. Well, let's go, look at the shells, the casings of where he fired at the owner. So we go over there. We find that. Well, then I find this dude's. Well, I didn't find it. There's three of us there. One of us finds this $1800 bow that belonged to this dude that this guy stole from the car. So we got that guy's bow back. We got everything back except for his gun and his pride after being shot at and the guy got away.

Speaker 2: 39:50

But that's, we wouldn't have got it if we would have just gone. Okay, can't find the dude, let's go back. We're done here. So tank your time, be that guy. That's annoying to other people that they're like. God dang dude, why are you taking so long writing reports? I want to be about there. Why are you taking so long to be on scene? I want to go to the next thing. I want to do whatever we're going to do. I want to go to lunch. I want to do that.

Speaker 2: 40:10

Guys in this profession, you're going to miss lunches, you're going to be late to lunches. A lot of people that you see laugh when I miss lunch, because it makes me really pissed off, especially when I'm going from BS call to BS call. I'll go to call and I'm getting the run around and it just pisses me off. People fighting over a toaster that puts Yoda on their toast and at the same time, I'm starving because I haven't been. I haven't eaten since breakfast and it's like six o'clock in the evening and I'm dealing with people fighting over a fucking toaster. This dude's got a Star Wars shirt on. He's saying it's his toaster. She has nothing Star Wars related and she's saying it's her toaster. You know who's toaster belongs to, but at this time I'm about to buy them both an extra toaster. He can have two toasters, she can have one, but be that one's annoying. You're going to piss off your fellow officers and they are going to rag on you. They're going to be like oh my God, dude, come on, why are we doing this? Let's just get this over with.

Speaker 2: 41:05

In the long run, you have a goal Now, like I said, when you're an FTO, don't be doing that. Do the best you can Do what they do, learn from them and do what you need to, but don't go in there starting shit with them just to start shit with them, because that won't work out for you. Go in there and do what you got to do, but when you get to your level, when you're out on yourself or when you have a partner, I don't care if that partner's been there 25 years. You're no longer an FTO, all right. He's your partner. Make them wait. Do what you want to do.

Speaker 2: 41:36

Start from the very beginning, making sure your reports are on point. You read my first reports. They're nothing like the no ones I do now and I show every rookie when I'm training. Here's my first report, here's my reports now and they're like oh, that's way different. Yes, you get better. The better you do, the better you're going to get. So like when their reports suck, I have to tell myself, hey, man, you started somewhere and I opened it for myself. Here's your first report. Dang, that's shit. Same thing. Just show them. But you will get better time. Just keep pushing, you will get better. Just like this podcast. Guys, it'll get better. This week.

Speaker 2: 42:14

I like some just not the right headspace, not going on, not a lot of sleep, not a lot of rest, trying to fit stuff in that I can do when I can do it. So I appreciate you guys so much. Thank you guys. Continue for this continued support. All my Patreon people, thank you so much.

Speaker 2: 42:33

It's our Patreon is growing. There is a new chat feature in there. You can ask me questions in there and we can. I'll bring it up in the podcast or we can bring it up in the live. Patreon people, you're going to get first dibs on a lot of stuff because you are going above and beyond trying to help me. You're getting extra call like extra notes, extra everything that no one else is getting photos and if there's something you want to see, let me know in there. There's a new chat room feature in there Cool deal. Tell me what you want to see. If you want to send me a message on there, I'll reply to your message. But, guys, again, thank you so much for the continued support of these podcasts. Like I said, hopefully we'll get better this week. It's all over the place. I didn't know what to do, but hopefully you enjoyed it for the 43 minutes we've been doing it. Much love everybody. Stay safe and thank you, guys, so so much.