nice post beowulf80
The night before last (Saturday night) I was running radar and clocked this pickup going 52 in a 35. I start catching up to him and turn on my strobes. As I get behind him, I hear a metal hitting the ground sound and then sparks. As I'm passing the object, I see it's a gun. I bump for another unit to come check by to pick up the gun while and another unit to come and help me detain the guys. They stop and I approached their vehicle watching their hands the closer I got to the window. I act like I didn't see them toss the gun, asking for their license and proof of financial responsibility (insurance). I ask for the passengers I.D. as well. I tell them to hang tight and that I would be right back. I go back and wait for the backup unit (which I honestly should have done before approaching them but I felt If I waited too long they would have ran). Once the backup unit arrived, we walked up and detained both people. Once they were in the back of our shops (patrol cars) I went to search the vehicle. Heheh I found a walmart sized bag of weed. I was laughing my butt off. If they wouldn't have thrown the gun, I might have never known and they would have just gotten a ticket. But, on the other hand, had they not thrown the gun, they could have used it against me. The gun they tossed was a .45 cal Taurus semi auto pistol. A tad bigger then my .40cal Glock.
wanna know what other joys we HPD officers enjoy? If we would have gotten into the chace, and they hit someone, hurt someone or such. I would be liable b/c I initiated the traffic stop. From what I gather, the city doesn't back us up. In fact, they even put a time constraint on our chases. Every officer knows that when a chase becomes unsafe that they will terminate the chase.