Coptalk.Info – What you do not know will shock you!

Let’s talk about something that I deal with on a nightly basis – Drunk Driving. Does drunk driving make you a criminal? Not on the same level as someone who robs a bank, shoots someone, steals a car, vandalizes property and so on. In fact, that’s something I hear frequently from the drunk driver after I arrest them. “Why...

ATM - Robberies: We all do it. Several times a week. Some do it once or more a day. We all make that convenient trip to the ATM machine to withdraw our hard-earned money. We transfer funds from checking accounts to savings accounts, we make deposits, we check balances, and we even make credit card and loan payments by way...

Assault and Battery: I can not work one full shift without being dispatched to a PC242. Often I get dispatched to several. That’s the Penal Code for Assault. In legal terms, it is the unlawful touching of another person. In police terms, a majority of these calls are wasted time. An incident that could have easily been avoided. Battery can...

You come to a stoplight and stop. Suddenly you hear tires screeching and WHAM, you are struck from behind. Or, You are trying to parallel park in a parking lot and OOOOOPS, you bump the car in front of you. Or, A minor collision where both parties agree what has happened. Any minor traffic accident can be handled without a police officer....