Police Officers, Who've Had “ALL UNITS” Calls Before, What Happened? - Reddit Podcast

police officers have you ever had an all units call and if so what happened I was doing a ride along in college in a fairly small city in Georgia when we got an all available units call the address came in the lights and Sirens went on and we were hauling it at about 120 mph across town I had no idea where we were headed until we got there the only thing the officer said to me was no matter what happens stay in the freaking car if you see anyone with a gun call it out on Theo video like this they showed me how if any of us get shot call it in and stay in the car then he took a deep breath calmly got out of the car and took off at a Sprint toward a 40ers melee in front of the only adult Club in town we were the first car there over the course of the next 30 seconds officers arrived and kept coming until they outnumbered the people fighting the officer I was riding with was completely on his own for a 10-second eternity and was able to rip about 10 people apart from fighting before backup arrived it was the single bravest and most humbling thing I've ever seen with my own eyes when it was all over he got back in the car with three drunk and beaten up dudes in the back turned to me and said so when are you going to sign up 25 years ago smallish rural Town my dad was A Beat cop on patrol my cat brings in a live mouse and was playing with it in the kitchen and my mom is deathly afraid of rodents so she calls dispatch and tells them my dad needs to come home dispatch gets on the line and tells my dad to switch to a secured line there's an emergency at home my dad's driving home to take care of the issue when when all the cops on patrol in my small town probably like four come with sirens and lights blazing to my house because they all heard there was an emergency at my dad's place my mother was mortified years ago friend of mine was a dispatcher for the county he covered Sheriff EMS and fire Communications and also worked with communicating with other agencies as well from the state troopers he got some sort of text communication not a phone text this was before that was a thing and it referred to an accident with injuries at the intersection of I4 40 and Business 85 something along the lines of collision I40 bus 85 injuries involved the way it was abbreviated and written made him misread it instead of an accident at 85 business he thought there was a bus Collision on I40 with 85 people injured he dispatched every goshon firet truck and ambulance the county had and they showed up and it's a two-car wreck with minor injuries former cop here the all units call was basically a riot at a large nightclub in a very rough area of the neighborhood City Once things were finally calmed down and a dozen or so people were taking away my boss wanted us all back in our city I was amazed at not only how many cops showed up but from where counties and towns I'd never heard of before I looked up a few at the end of the shift and some came from an hour or more away I don't know how large this large nightclub was but evidently it was large enough to support half of the state's police Personnel how bad was the riot was someone there on his five-star wanted level in GTA more from from me the Ride Along guy from the first story this one was definitely weird for my small town someone called 911 and claimed that their house had been bombed so naturally the fire department police and medical were all dispatched we were among the first to arrive and I got the same stay in the car until I say it's okay line before the officer left to see what was going on firemen were checking for fires and finding nothing EMTs were checking for injuries and shock and finding nothing and police were checking for Mad bombers and finding nothing from where I was sitting in the patrol car I had a nice view of everything the house was a nice old mil Village style house that sat on a corner about 10 ft off the road most of the house was completely untouched except for the front left of the house which was missing a chunk out of the corner about 4 and 1/2 ft tall and about 2 to 3 ft wide approximately 4 or 5T off the ground it looked like someone threw a homemade grenade at the corner of the house except there were no signs at all of charring from an explosion the hole was deep enough that you could see light coming from inside the house to the outside now I've been sitting in the car for about 30 minutes and the sun has set with dusk growing darker by the minute I decide that since none of these people have blown up it's probably safe for me to get out and take a look as well I find my officer in the crowd and he's cool with me looking around and taking some photos so I do I stay out of the way for the most part and I'm looking through the grass like everyone else to find any signs of some explosive device when I almost step in a huge ant bed about 30 ft from the house in the front yard I noticed two things someone has already Disturbed the ant bed because it looks like there's a huge gash in it and two there's nobody that seems teed off enough about setting in a large ant bed to have done it aha a clue I figured find the guy with a ton of ant bites and we've got our bomber so I start looking for footprints around the ant bed because the grass was kind of wet and maybe I watched too much NCIS I stood in between the ant bed and the house and could make out a faint line along the grass made up of 1ot long dashes every 8 to 10 ft that led into the woods behind the house across the street I followed them to see where they went and they led to some train tracks and the trail went cold I went back to the ant bed and used my hand to trace a line that would go roughly towards the corner of the house that was damaged from the corner of the house I looked across the street towards the neighbors grass and woods and saw one long Dash through the grass and a tree with a huge gash in it I got my officer and told him I thought I had figured it out and would he come with me to check he grabbed a couple of other guys and we set off towards the tree with the gash and sure enough about 6 ft off the side of the tree was some kind of wheel or break or something from a train that had come off at speed rolled through the front yard hit the ant bed and house and ricocheted off the house and across the street to hit a tree for a while I was known around the department and City manager's office as detective Ride Along along when my buddy was still a new cop he worked in a larger City they' just gotten the shoulder mics you know the ones every cop now has mounted up by their mouth so they can call in easier when new to them they wore the cord in the front of their shirts and it was always in the darn way and great handles when people people wanted to wrestle the cops Jimmy was called in one night to a bar roll he strolled into the bedum and it was almost over he was a rookie always getting the crap detail so he was becoming famous among his department for ruining his uniforms to the point he was having to come out of pocket to replace them he walked into a vet telling him to Cuff everyone's still here they'll sort them out later Jimmy grabs the closest guy and they struggle a little bit and go down to the ground as they do RIP Jimmy splits his pants clean up the backside knowing he's going to be the butt of the joke anyway he turns his head to announce to the other officers well that's another uniform down and keys his mic Bas hears uniform down so does everyone else in the county the radio explodes with chatter but the three cops at the bar already have their hands full so they turned down their radios which was screw-up number two Bas decides to roll everything with lights to the scene Jimmy said they were glad of the help when the first few cars rolled up but they just kept coming he was known as Jack the radio Ripper until he transferred minor reprimand and he still had to pay for the pants man I would never be cool enough to say send everything with lights so I intered at the local police department at a time when all stations received new radio devices the new devices looked a bit like old cell phones and had a bright orange panic button on top it was meant for situations where a single police officer was attacked and needed help pushing that button resulted in all Communications on the standard channel one being turned one way way communication only so all units would listen to what's going on wherever the panic button was pressed and an automatic all free units call all other units had to switch to the much weaker Channel 2 to communicate but Channel 2 only allowed one device to speak so basically either dispatch or car 1 or Car 2 Etc could talk but not multiple people at the same time like on channel one to disable the panic mode you had to push the bright orange button in a certain way think holding it for 3 seconds followed by four quick push and it couldn't be done remotely this happened in rather a large city where some police stations were closed at night usually the ones in the suburbs where few calls came in that night an older police officer closed down the remotest station in the suburbs and decided to shut off the radio devices you guessed it he pushed the panic button on top because he thought that's where the devices were turned on and off without realizing what he had done he locked the station and went home since it was the first day of using the new radio devices quite a few officers were unsure of how to turn to channel to basically all communication was blocked Q Panic everywhere with frantic cell phones to dispatch and dispatch trying to figure out who closed the station so that panic mode could be disabled and remember they only had one key to open it so this unintentional all units call turned into an actual no units can call though quite a few units were busy trying to resolve the situation well that's a whoopsy and a half sorry entire City's police force my finger slipped oh and I couldn't call in to help resolve the situ situation because I went home to sleep former Royal Canadian Mounted Police here in a small tourist town was working on a regular midweek day shift when we received a dispatched call for a bomb threat in the industrial commercial sector of the town we all went there called in the bomb squad the dogs got people out of the area and so on we were doing roadside when we got another call that the local bank's silent alarm was turned on now we're in Canada in a tourist town things are usually relatively calm but this this was absolutely chaotic we got the all unit call they call our neighboring Detachment to help we all split and head to the bank we arrived some 20 yard patrol cars all around to see the bank employees bound and gagged smoke everywhere from smoke bombs we realized very quickly that the bomb threat was the diversion we immediately got a bolo out to get the three males identified by the bank staff including a former bank employee we get the bolo out to cpic got words to airports and border crossings we managed to catch two out of the three guys the last one flew back to his home country he had been in Canada on a student visa we remained on high alert for days after this looking for the third guy Canadian authorities worked with their colleagues from the GU country to get him extradited almost a year later in the end as I recall about 130 Grand was missing and never recovered for most of us it was the first time we had a bomb threat or a robbery first time we were guarding an area expecting to be shot from an unknown location The Robbers were reported to have AK looking weapons you can submit your own stories to be featured here on the channel the story submission link is in the description below and if you want to listen to some viby music in the background check out easy mode also linked below and subscribe we usually get our all units call about once a month or so we're taught that if you need backup if crap is hitting the fan call it in and worry about how many people come later a unit was on patrol 2 weeks ago and some guy just started shooting at him all the unit got out was 34th Street 1033 I'm taking fire 1033 being the code for send the Cavalry or officer in need of assistance it all ended fine we caught the guy with no injuries but you'd better believe every officer in our area dropped what they were doing and went another recent one was a mini Riot breaking out at a candle vigil for a murder victim an officer stepped in alone bad move to stop the fight and started getting his butt handed to him all he said was pmic 1033 but it works we came in dispersed the crowd and got out also good chance to rant about a pet peeve of mine when 10:33 goes out there's always a few units who block the air with useless chatter hold me responding what's the location dispatch or I'll come back to my current assignment later do they need a rifle on scene it drives me crazy get off the radio and leave the air clear for the unit fighting for their lives and every unit not on something absolutely necessary is required to respond why would you waste time to say you're going no crap you're going there was an episode of This American Life where an officer accidentally locked himself in the back of his car when he went to take a nap he left his radio in the front so he called dispatch and was like don't make this a big thing just send one unit to me and then dispatch proceeds to call the code for officer down so then he heard a bunch of cars put on their sirens and race to him I got run over by someone fleeing the scene of an incident that they weren't involved in he just got scared and apparently had a gun on him I was out of my car talking to the person who called and my partner was trying to stop the person who was really called on so he didn't even see me get hit no one knew I got hit or where I was because my radio went flying luckily there were a lot of witnesses who called 911 and found my radio I confused the dispatcher because I was in so much shock that I came over the radio talking like I normally do but I was bleeding badly from my head and broke my leg I didn't feel the pain for about 2 hours so I had that call come out because of me I'm pretty sure a policy got made because of me too what's the policy say don't move in front of a fleeing vehicle or threaten to shoot at one unless the occupant is firing at you with a gun apparently me yelling stop the car with my gun out while the car was accelerating the street going the wrong way is what made him turn into me and hit me when I moved out of the way might not have been an all units call but the day my daughter went unresponsive after having a feal seizure the 911 dispatcher sent out unresponsive 2-year-old and we had about 30 EMT police firefighters at our house in minutes we live in a rural area short distance from fire and ambulance Hall and everyone is a member EMT thankfully she was okay but it was scary for us at the moment when her temperature wouldn't go down and then she passed out as the story goes in duth main for a long time the radio signal that available officers could meet for Dunkin Donuts was the code word Broken Arrow one day a nelian was in the local Newsroom when this was overheard he got alarmed and told the rest of the newsroom that the code word likely meant that the police station was at that moment overwhelmed and outgunned and they were calling all available units to help reporters rushed to the scene to find donuts that code word is no longer used in fairness Broken Arrow does sound infinitely more ominous than a snack break if I heard that code word I would assume that stuff was going down I mean these kinds of call outs happen all the time officers in a fight possible subject with a firearm major traffic accident it's not anything like in the movies if it's a big enough incident all your available units are going to be going I called 911 a couple of weeks ago because there was a couple involved in a domestic at a gas station and I heard the phrase give me the knife relayed all info I could to the dispatcher and not even 5 minutes later two Village Police units and four Deputy sheriffs rolled up weapons out yelling at the dude I thought I was about to watch this guy get shot this was probably around midnight I wouldn't be surprised if those four deputies were all the units on duty that night I work as a police Communicator at a local University usually an all units call is a fire alarm at one of the buildings however most of the time it's a false alarm and someone just burnt the popcorn at the lounge one morning at work we were evacuated from a rather large office building 50 more floors in New York City fire alarms went off on three floors because someone burned their popcorn in the microwave that person will never live it down I once got an all unit call to my house the backstory is that my mom was dating a crystal head and everyone knew who he was they also knew our address I was about 15 and one night he went off the rails and was beating the crap out of my mom I got involved just in time to see him swing at my sister who was seven at the time I ran for the phone and called it in I got as far as the address when he grabbed me by the neck and through me well the dispatcher heard my garbled Yelp and called it in as a possible homicide in progress that combined with his reputation sent every single cop in the surrounding jurisdictions come flying our way by the end of it I think there were more than 20 police officers at our house I ended up hitting him with my mom's cast iron skillet to keep him there just as the first officer showed up the officer was super cool about it and pretended he didn't see a thing it was a terrible night and my mom was mad at me for months but man you don't mess with my little sister was a military police officer on a rather large base I was getting off shift and being transported back to my Barracks by the guys coming on shift so I could check in my weapon suddenly we got a call for all units to respond to a section of base housing a military wife was having an affair with another Soldier while her husband was on deployment supposedly the husband was due to return soon so she tried to break it off with the other guy he responded by stabbing her several times my team leader and I searched the tree line with our weapons drawn because he was armed and it was dark outside you know I actually passed the guy with my team leader a few yards behind me and suddenly the suspect comes out saying you're looking for me it scared the crap out of me my team leader covered him while I went in for the handcuffing making sure that I had my knee firmly planted in between his shoulder blades and thoroughly covering his upper torso into the muddy terrain not sure what happened after that he was taken to a holding cell by another Squad and I got to go home ended up getting transferred from that base a few months later but I know the wife survived the wounds too many examples London riots units attacked with a machete large group fighting with knives building fires so on and so forth I was at one of the lakefront beaches in Chicago a few summers ago when according to news reports later a party a quarter of a mile down the trail from us started getting out of hand apparently the party got way overcrowded so a pair of cops rolled up in a squad car to get the mar Archie band to quit in hopes of folks losing interest and dispersing this was a no-go and the crowd responded by among other things breaking the squad car windows and surging in around the cops one of whom put out an oh crap call I don't know the details but apparently Chicago cops have a code that basically means drop whatever you're doing and get the freck over here because within 90 seconds Wilson a looked I crap you not like that epic car chase at the end of The Blues Brothers if I had to guess it must have been at least 50 cars hauling butt down onto the lakefront one after the other like a highspeed parade of cop cars celebrating we're going to freck you up then arrest everybody day which basically it was my father was a Port Authority police department officer for more than 30 years two times he had all unit calls first was the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the second was September 11th 2001 if he didn't pass away from an illness related to his time at the World Trade Center site in 2001 he'd be able to convey his impressions of that day better than I could I recently found his handwritten notes from that night they were jumbled together on his notepad and place mats from a diner in the area the first and only cavalry charge I've seen was in Brooklyn there was this ride on the W12 and bowy and Coney Island in the late 80s called The Polar Express you've all seen it it's that ride that goes really fast around then it goes backwards while blasting really loud music stupid but whatever this also attracted every broke bum in Brooklyn who couldn't afford to get into a club or people who were thrown out of all of them on weekends and it was always a freaking nightmare there were always fights but you learned to let them Tire themselves out a bit before you ated in because things could get ugly I was detailed to this thing with a small army of other rookie cops on the fourth of July weekend we were told in no uncertain terms not to go into the crowd ever nothing is happening in there that's worth your safety so of course a brawl breaks out and someone immediately goes running in now please understand you have to go now you can't leave the other guy alone even if he did mess up the crowd parts for us like Moses parting the Red Sea and then it closes on us and the air mail rocks and Bottles comes sailing we're pretty much back back to back like in the movie 300 but we're vastly vastly outnumbered and out inebriated we're fighting our way out and there's backup trying to fight its way in to get to us but it's taking time and I don't know if you've literally fought for your life but it's freaking tiring that adrenaline jolt only buys you so much time then I saw it a flying wedge formation of mounted charging down West 12th into the crowd at full speed with the sergeant in the Middle with his night stick held out like he was ordering a charge and a crap eating grm that said he'd wasit his entire life to do this I think the horse was smiling too you'll hear the term crash a lot and it's hyperbole not here now these guys crashed into this Riot and sent bodies flying everywhere like the bow of a great warship cutting through a stormy sea a blue black leather and Rowan Battleship the crowd dispersed in about 3 minutes flat equally as stunned by what they saw as honestly the foot cops were I know sometimes people complain about the cost of maintaining Mounted Police units because they're seen as unnecessary backdrop for tourist photos and oh my God I'm living proof that they're so so much more valuable than that when you subscribe make sure to hit the Bell to turn on notifications put the playlist on in the background to finish listening to all the stories or if you want some viby music to put on in the background check out easy mode if you like am I the genius give am I the jerk a shot everything Linked In the description

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