Citizens Police Academy

Last night was another week of CPA. We had a presentation from the Mounted Patrol and 6th Street Division. For those of you who ain't been to Austin, 6th Street is 10 blocks of bars, bars and more bars. Every Thursday-Saturday Nights and special occasions they shut down the street for foot traffic only and people spill out of the bars and walk the street and fight and throw up, and fall down, etc. Pretty fun I guess, if I hadn't already done that in the greatest city on earth, Athens, GA. We've never been down there for it but you can only image the jackasses that show up and all the crap the officers have to put up with. Lots of funny stories from this crew.

Cold Case unit was next. Now this is the one I've been waiting for. An officer that has been on the force for 32 years gave the presentation. It was very impressive and he talked about a few high profile cases, one of which I had seen on the Cold Case Files t.v. show. Unfortunately he ran out of time, but it could have listened to that presentation for hours. Three separate cases 10 years apart ended up being related and they caught the guy in Mexico.

Next week we're back at the academy for car simulator and someone will probably volunteer to be TASER'd, it won't be me. I've taken enough shocks of electricity while working remodeling jobs. THEN, it will be time of our ride-a-longs. Mine is Friday 11/21 from 4pm to 2am. I can't wait!! Maybe I'll get to sound the siren....