Posted: 1/26/2013 2:45:34 PM EDT
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After 15 years in LE I consider myself somewhat even keeled and able to separate work from personal life. Today, in addition to being a very pleasant day off with my kid while the wife is out of town visiting family, would have been the sixth birthday of a toddler whose murder I helped investigate. I have been feeling sick all day trying to keep from thinking about him.
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After 15 years in LE I consider myself somewhat even keeled and able to separate work from personal life. Today, in addition to being a very pleasant day off with my kid while the wife is out of town visiting family, would have been the sixth birthday of a toddler whose murder I helped investigate. I have been feeling sick all day trying to keep from thinking about him. Is this the landfill case? If so both of them are pulling a shitload of prison time because of you and your crew. Wednesday is 5 years after my crash for me. |
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I've got one coming up in March, happened 2 years ago. Nowhere near as bad as yours though. Happen about 2 months after I got off of FTO.
It was a domestic disturbance call, possible weapons involved. Long story short, a 23 year old male was beating a 17 year old girl with a solid wood broom handle. He'd taken it off an old industrial push broom. He broke 3 ribs and messed up her back really badly. IIRC, she had to have several disks in her back fused together. But, since he had the right last name and the family were well to do folk, the DA didn't really pursue it and he got off light. |
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I unfortuantely have too many of those type of dates to keep track of. Mine are more locations. I' drive past spots on a daily basis where i have been involved in that would make most people cry. J- Can relate to that. With a tad more than 20 years in the field, there are not many places in town that I can drive without thinking about a previous time I was there. Some just routine, some bad, some very bad and a very few good. One spot in particular is an intersection we worked an auto-ped that didn't make it and two days later delivered a baby in the back of a van pulled to the side of the road, right where the auto-ped had landed the shift before. I could still see the spray paint markings under the van marking the spot. Crazy. |
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I unfortuantely have too many of those type of dates to keep track of. Mine are more locations. I' drive past spots on a daily basis where i have been involved in that would make most people cry. J- Can relate to that. With a tad more than 20 years in the field, there are not many places in town that I can drive without thinking about a previous time I was there. Some just routine, some bad, some very bad and a very few good. One spot in particular is an intersection we worked an auto-ped that didn't make it and two days later delivered a baby in the back of a van pulled to the side of the road, right where the auto-ped had landed the shift before. I could still see the spray paint markings under the van marking the spot. Crazy. yep, coming up on 20 myself. they add up. J- |
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I finally had to change how I deal with things. My wife wouldn't ride around town with me because of the places that I would point out and identify where a rape, murder or fatal car wreck had occurred. One of the great things about not living in the city where I work is that I don't have to do that very much. |