It’s a typical evening on patrol until officers are dispatched to a call where a man said he is going to kill his wife and then himself. Dispatchers immediately begin mediating with the eerily calm man while they dispatch a small army to the call, including negotiators. Once on scene, hostage negotiators begin doing their job. It is almost like watching a waltz, methodical and arranged. Over the course of several hours, the suspect spoke with negotiators. He ultimately ended up killing his wife, but had a request of negotiators before he surrendered. He asked if he could have a beer before he came out. Officers granted his request and placed the beer in the middle of the street and illumin

Posted by dvh123 I am trying to find statistics for drunk in public incidents in my neighborhood. I live at 22nd and I street in midtown and it seems to me and my husband that in the past year or so we have had more and more of these incidents, particularly on the weekends. We are very disturbed by the number of individuals leaving the bars/restaurants in our neighborhood who are at best just loud and drunk and happy or at worst having horrible drunken altercations, sometimes right under our bedroom window. We do call the police, but this situation has gotten out of hand and it is also a very dangerous one in that there are fights and people driving away intoxicated. We need a foot or bi

Here is an actual example of how it goes…Officer is on routine patrol. Officer runs a plate of an occupied vehicle with 3 subjects inside. The vehicle comes back stolen. Officers perform a vehicle stop. Car keeps going which turns into a pursuit. The pursuit continues for about 3-5 miles after which the subjects stop and bail out. Officer loses the driver who then calls for K9. Officers set up a perimeter and hold. They are waiting for the experts. Canines have the ability to detect scents from miles away. They have a scent cone that they follow until they find the area that is strongest. Once they find the strongest scent, they hit on it. Officers found two of the passengers and took them

April 9, 2009, 7080 24th St, 7:01 p.m.: Assault with a Deadly Weapon V-was standing in front of the "Speed Wash: Laundromat when he observed two MBA's (40's) walking towards him. He recognized the subjects as local transients, but he didn't know their names. One subject accused the victim of saying derogatory comments about his wife. The other subject then picked up a metal pipe and struck the victim in the head (cut/ bleeding). The subjects then fled on foot. Victim was transported to UCD (stable). April 10, 2009 7th/K Street: Robbery 2122 hrs, Victim called in advising he was just robbed by force of cash at the Light Rail station. He provided suspect descriptions and that the suspect

Downtown March 13, 2009, 8:50 p.m., 1900 P St.: Stabbing Officers respond to the Zebra Club on a victim of a stabbing. They located him outside, in front of the club, with cuts on his arms and head. March 13, 2009, 6:11 p.m., 1800 block of P St.: Robbery Two black male suspects pointed a gun at the victim and robbed him of his cash. March 13, 2009, 6:23 p.m., 1300 I St.: Robbery Two Black male suspects pointed a gun at the victim and stole his laptop computer.