When Police Officers Met People They Formerly Arrested (AskReddit)

police officers have read it what's the oldest place you've encountered people you formally arrested this happened many years ago in my grandparents small farming country town in Australia which is why everyone knew about it and told all their relatives about it it's that sort of place one Sunday the policeman the town is so small it only has one cop abruptly got up and walked out of church in the middle of the service his wife was annoyed the rudeness then at the end of the service the policeman was hanging around the door as people walked out until the man visiting his elderly parents appeared upon which he grabbed his elbow and said could I please have a word sir it turned out this man was visiting his parents because he was wanted in the UK for fraud so big he was featured in the new issue of Interpol which had arrived that morning the policeman had gone home to double-check he wasn't recognizing the wrong guy before he arrested him how about meeting the officer who arrested you I recently hit the 60-day mark for a a a few years back I was picked up for DUI and the cop took no shit no excuses dropped me in holding next morning Lee showed up Coffee aspirin and Powerade took the time to talk to me and gave me a card for a guy he knew well last month when I hit 30 days the cop showed up turned out before becoming a cop he had been a booze monkey although he never got in legal trouble my sponsor the guy he knew had been his sponsor the officer was coming in to tell us his story of how he changed his life and how we could to finish half of us there had met this cop and been given the number for the local AAA chapter and he remembered each and every one of us and yes it took me two years to finally admit I had a problem a police officer friend visited a restaurant with his family they had at least a dozen people seated dressed nicely after a round of drinks they placed their order with the waitress food took a long time to arrive but just before the food was ready a dishwasher came out of the kitchen and pulled my cop friend aside he advised to the officer that the chef had recently received a DUI from this officer and thought the chef was enthusiastically looking forward to the server's bringing out the food so he can get revenge needless to say the officer rounded up his party paid for the drinks and they quickly headed elsewhere to this day I wonder if the chef simply put his bull sack in the food or if it was much more dangerous like poison we'll never know my dad was a cop for 30 years 30 years after he arrested this guy as a beat cop he was at a bar in Florida this guy kept eating him up and down my dad started talking to him found out they were from the same city in Nye that's when the guy was like holy shit you're off as a poop underscore drunk stat you locked me up thirty years ago as you can imagine you never know how it's gonna go from there if the guy's gone or a tackle something crazy like that ultimately the guy thanked him saying it's what finally got his life on track and bought him a beer I'm not a police officer three years or so ago I used to work at a festival bar everyone working at the bar had to wear the same costume about two hours in my shift the police showed up looking for one of my colleagues the guy they came for noticed started running and the officers chased him ten minutes later the guy was back to work he just circled around came back working he figured they wouldn't be looking for him back at work he was right not a police officer but a lawyer I stuck someone in jail for being thousands of dollars behind on his child support he cursed me and called me everything under the Sun well he pony up the $700 get out of the clink money and when I pulled into my driveway the next day then he was roofing my house SM H Boston Market i arrested this guy after his wife came in and claimed he strangled her the night before I live about 40 minutes away from the town I work for about three weeks after the arrest I walked into the M to get dinner for me and my wife I turned around and the guy arrested was a few people behind me in line we made eye contact we both knew our food was more important to both of us he was getting food about 40 minutes from house so I guess him and his wife didn't get back together my dad was in the gang squad for a bit arrested a guy fairly high up in one of the local motorcycle gangs a few years later the whole family is at one of those restaurants where they cook in front of you and they seated the guy he arrested at our table my dad and this guy give each other a tense greeting and we begin our meal I turned to the guy I was four years old and say hi I'm you slash hippocampus - my daddy is a policeman and he catches bad guys what do you do and he responds I'm a bad guy and he caught me my dad is just about in tears he's laughing so hard the guy ended up buying my parents a bottle of wine and lobster for the whole table I'm not a cop but years ago I got arrested for drunk in public not a proud moment at the cop shop I was honest and told them I'd also done some blow the arresting officer spent like an hour lecturing me about drug abuse and alcohol abuse and how destructive it is he wasn't wrong two years later I went to rehab because I got out of control first group therapy session and guess who was sitting in the circle bingo the arresting cop from two years ago we became good friends and still call each other from time to time arrested this dude for multiple stalking charges against a juvenile student of one of the local high schools this dude was crazy first arrest I towed his car for 30 days because he parked illegally and had expired registration hoping it did deter him from driving two hours to try and talk to this girl I then arrested him two weeks later where he told me he took the train after several other arrests made by me and other officers guess where I see this dude I ordered pizza for my fam thurmond this dude was the delivery boy super awesome situation when I was addicted to meth I used to get really paranoid out in public and there was this one cop who would always drive me home or calm me down never arrested me though and he was always super nice even though I was always onct out I'm guessing it's because I was only ever a danger to myself anyway I got sober and hadn't seen him in months went on vacation out of town and saw him and his family in vacation - we caught up and he told me how much better I looked now that I was off the drugs not a police officer but my dad was when I was around six or seven we were renting a house in a suburb outside of the large city my dad worked for we had a maintenance guy come out for some repairs to the house I was following him around while he worked and was in the back of the house with him when my dad comes out of his bedroom this guy turned white as a ghost and started stammering my dad tells me to get out of here there is yelling and a few punches thrown by my dad before he takes this guy down turns out he had arrested him a few weeks before and the guy saw the picture of us my dad kept with him and went into detail about how he was going to slit me and my siblings throats while my dad watched it was apparently purely coincidental but my dad got a restraining order we had a very aggressive patrol on our street for the next few weeks good times not a police officer but I'm a reporter who has worked with police officers and judges over the past several years I was talking to a judge one time and he told me a story about how years and years ago he threw a guy in jail on some charge I can't remember what it was a few months after that the judge was leaving a local municipal airport and he looks up to see one of the guys loading bags onto the plane is none other than the guy he threw in jail he said they got to talking and the guy wasn't mad at the judge at all he said what he did was stupid and he didn't blame the judge for throwing him in jail the judge told me he saw that guy several more times over the years and they became almost sort of friends I also know of a local police officer who stopped getting food at a DS because one time when he was off-duty he went there and recognized the guy making the food as someone he had once arrested he said that was the last time he ever went there went to a bar to see a band last week I saw the bassist setting up and it took me a while to realize why he looked so familiar I had arrested his son for a robbery six years ago then when the band started playing I noticed the guitarist arrested him for domestic violence a few years back great band I'd go see them again I'm pretty sure the bassist recognized me and cough involuntarily committed a guy who was threatening suicide and found by the train tracks he disputed my decision and brought us to a commitment hearing to get out was committed by the judge anyway based on my testimony gave me my birth control prescription at the pharmacy at CVS not a police officer but a lawyer I went to trial on a horrible DUI 3.x the legal limit found in his car in the driver's seat car off in front of the liquor store somehow we won the next week I went to that same liquor store and my client was there he was not supposed to be drinking for court orders story from a friend and cow Orca back in my co days he was at a Mexican restaurant in lows and Hills with his wife and kids when a guy came up and asked him if he was officer X my friend anticipated the worst and pushed his son behind him as he turned to the guy he told the guy yes and asked him why the guy turned to his friends and said yo this is officer X he treated me really cool last time I was locked up definitely could have gone worse a couple months prior we had a co sent to the hospital after an encounter with the former detainee at a gas station wasn't long after that when I decided it wasn't worth the risk to my new family and I changed professions i arrested a guy for shoplifting asterisk nothing serious that he did go to jail because he had prior convictions about a year later as I was walking up to my front door I saw a guy sitting on the front step of the house next door that I thought I recognized he made some shitty joke about me being a 180 new leaves which I laughed off but it made me wonder if I dealt with him before the next day I went back through records and sure enough I had arrested him for previous year so anyways we started getting rocks thrown through our windows at night happened three times my tires got slashed on both of my cars and my car got keyed this was all over the course of just a few nights we called the cops each time but nothing ever really resulted we didn't know about the car vandalism until the next morning but when the windows were smashed I ran outside right away but nobody was around I was pretty sure it was my new neighbor but there just wasn't any evidence tying the vandalism to anyone I put up some obvious cameras and floodlights and the vandalism stopped but we were worried for a while that it would escalate and the guy kept harassing us he didn't work and spent a lot of the time just smoking on the front step whenever anyone from our place walked by he'd insult them in some way he called my girlfriend a proud white bitch because she mowed the lawn law not a cop loss prevention officer in Canada LP can perform actual arrests I understand that's not the case in most of the you sir made eye contact at a local bar with a guy I had locked up on some bullshit warrant the week previous he walked straight towards me and I'm trying to act as calm and nonchalant as possible while planning out exactly how I'm gonna kick his ass when he starts a fight with me he came over and asked to find you who he was I said yeah he said I just want to thank you for not treating me like a piece of shit and he bought me a beer after shaking my hand really caught me off guard this happened about seven years ago and I'll never forget it heard this story from a guy who is an author now but years ago he was an undercover FBI agent he had gotten in pretty deep into the mob and years later while shopping at Mart he runs into a guy who was in the gang he had infiltrated he saw him from a distance and he knew he had to bold at this point the guy was out but he knew he had to get the hell out off the store so he went out with his kid through the back my bill was a state trooper he went out to a social function while off-duty hosted by fellow trooper who proudly introduced his new dates who was a very attractive woman who my bill had also arrested for drugs repeatedly she was a frequent flyer for drug charges and had cases pending over her head fellow trooper had not known her very long and had no idea yet but bill was obligated to drop the dime quietly to fellow trooper he wasn't unsympathetic the department policy would have been problematic if fellow trooper associated with felons with pending charges off duty he hated to have to do that to both of them we the story once can't be sure if it's true though about an Englishman that emigrated to New Zealand he got pulled over for speeding by a cop that also had an English accent after thinking for a minute he asks the cop if he was also a policeman in England before he moved abroad the cop confirms he was and the area he worked in back home so that's where I know you from you gave me a speeding ticket once before about six years ago some 14,000 miles away

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Length: 14min 12sec (852 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 07 2019