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What do you do?
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Posted 2 months ago Here is the question...as a Criminal Justice Major I would like to hear from fellow LEO's on how they would approach this. You are on patrol duty. An officer named John is a former partner of yours. You and your wife often socialize with John and his wife. John is off duty and came home after a day of drinking. John's wife calls your wife to ask if she can call you to come by their house. John got in a argument with his wife and hit her in the mouth. You don not report the call to dispatch, but go immediately to the John's house. When you arrive you meet John's wife at the door. She has a bloody lip and a red eye. John has gone to bed. John's wife assures you that everything is alright now and thanks you for coming by. What do you do? Thank you in advance for contributing. Rhonda If You Can Imagine It, You Can Achieve It. ~ If You Dream It, You Can Become It. |
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| Posted 2 months ago Before I answer...is this real or just hypothetical? |
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| Posted 2 months ago 2Greazy says ...
Same here, gotta know... FORMERLY KNOWN AS wgipson1073.
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| Posted 2 months ago Real or hypothetical, your answer should be the same. Call on duty officers and get yourself out of the situation. If she wants to cooperate or not with the on duty, it is up to her. He may be your friend, but he has possibly committed a crime. You not calling on duty officers will get you in toruble with IA. Is your frinedship with John worth your job? Reporting it may not cost him his, depending on what actually happened and what he and the wife say and do, but not reporting ti will almost certainly cost you yours. |
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| Posted 2 months ago By immediately calling on duty officers to respond, your friendship with both of them will very likely be over. And quite frankly, there is a high likelyhood that she won't cooperate with them, and nothing will happen. I would sit down with her and have a long chat about things. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I agree that calling on duty officers will probably end at least one of the friendships, if not both. Both intervening or doing anything else will also end the friendships. One of them is going to see it as taking the others side. It is also possible that both will end up not liking you for getting involved. The same is also true if you refuse to do anything. Not getting involved is also going to cost you the friendship. So, if I am writing off the friendship of at least one, I might as well save my job by doing the right thing. Long term, this is what I can justify the best to myself, and maybe to the couple when they are over this. It is the right thing and has the best odds of keeping friends long term. |
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| Posted 2 months ago srothstein says ...
You have no personal knowledge that John did it anyway. She could have fallen and is trying to get John in trouble. A few proper questions and be gone. It is over, you didn't see anything happen anyway. Then talk to John some other time to see what is going on. "the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, do nothing." Dante |