There was just a police chase outside my house.

[Renew Deal]

I heard police sirens blaring and getting closer quickly. Then I heard a car revving it's engine. I look outside and there's a blue Lexus or Infiniti blazing down the street with 3 cop cars chasing him. The car tried to make a left and ended up on someones lawn, then kept going. He made it out the only outlet and I don't know what happened from there. CRAZY!

[Maru Kitteh]

1. In my area this is the first temperate weekend we've had in months. People are going nutz.

We recently purchased a police scanner and it's really quite fascinating.

[bobburgster]

9. We have one too.

It can be quite illuminating.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I always knew there were a lot of lonely and sad people out there but the number of threatened

suicides (10-65, J2) every day in our small town of 40,000 or so is just stunning to me.

I heard two calls today, and I haven't even really been paying attention.

[bobburgster]

11. What ever happened to careful car pursuit?

A number of years ago there was a big furor over the police being involved in high speed chases. It had to do with a lot of innocent people getting killed or seriously injured when police chased people for low level crimes. At the time many laws regarding high speed pursuits were put in place. It seems to me this has again fallen by the wayside.

[Archae]

2. I saw one like that once.

It was on the news being followed by a news helcopter, and a car roared past my driveway, (I went outside to see) followed by several cop cars.

Eventually the guy (drunk driver) crashed into a tree.

This was several years ago.

[rocktivity]

3. Donut run!

:evilgrin:
rocktivity

[ChicagoSuz219]

4. Anyone know...

...whatever happened in the story with the woman who took pix of the FBI/police/SWAT team at her neighbor's house? She posted them about two weeks ago.

[Journeyman]

5. Years ago, when I returned to LA from the war, my second day back. . .

I found myself alone late at night in the house my brother was housesitting while he finished college. (Everyone had concert tickets but no one had expected me home.) The owner had passed away some months before and his wife didn't want to stay in it alone while her family tried to sell it. It was free rent for my brother but it came with some baggage. Mainly, dead animals. The owner had been a hunter and the house was filled with big game trophies. The den was a huge room, done all in wood paneling and heavy timber, with a river rock fireplace, hearth and mantel. That's where I was sitting that night, surrounded by dozens of dead beasts, reading the ultra-violent novel A Clockwork Orange. A real horror show, as you can imagine.

I'd mellowed into my bag and was sipping a brew when, from only half a block away, I heard the gut-wrenching sound of a siren heralding a policeman in danger. If you've ever heard it, it stays with you forever. It starts low then builds to a sharp point: "whooooOOOP! whooooOOOP!" From miles away, from all directions, I could hear dozens of police cars racing to the sound. "whooooOOOP! whooooOOOP!" And suddenly, I was back in the war. Shotgun blasts boomed through the neighborhood, followed by rapid small arms fire from an untold number of weapons. Screams punctured the night.

I reached over, flicked off the reading lamp, then made my way quickly to the solid oak wet bar built into the corner of the room. Last thing I wanted was to be caught in the crossfire or taken hostage in some desperate fool's escape attempt. The firefight raged for what seemed like 10 minutes, police cars pouring into the neighborhood throughout from all directions, lights flaring, sirens blaring, an increasing cacophony of gunfire and guttural screams.

Then all the weapons went silent, almost at once. And slowly, one after another but in no perceived order, the sirens went silent. It was hours before the colored strobe lights went out. Eventually, I crawled out from behind the bar, brought the bottle I'd cracked open with me, and returned to my reading.

[Rapier09]

6. People are losing it

I don't envy the cops dealing with what is going out there.

I'd like to rap their knuckles for what some of the Law enforcement officers do some of the times but I admit they are going to have an interesting year.

[paulsby]

7. i work the streets nearly every day

and i have yet to see evidence that people are "losing it"

the crime scene is roughly the same as it was last year and the year before.

the stats i have seen shows some areas seeing an increase, some a decrease, but i haven't seen any clear trend established

[hisownpetard]

8. Excuse me for asking, but when you say you "work the streets nearly every day,"

do you mean as a police officer?

[paulsby]

12. yes, and dealing with street crime

there were all sorts of predictions that last year would see a big spike in crime due to the recession

didn't happen. was relatively flat overall

this year, i haven't seen much of a change either in statistics or in personal experience