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OCT 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 10

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FEATURES THE EVOLUTION OF POLICE CARS PART II 50 2023 FORDS 56 2023 DODGES 62 2023 CHEVYS 64 UPFITTERS-CAP FLEET @ DANA SAFETY SUPPLY 78 RETIRED COPS SHOP STORIES 82 2023 TCOLE CONFERENCE DEPARTMENTS 6 PUBLISHER’S THOUGHTS 8 EDITOR’S THOUGHTS 12 GUEST COMMENTARY - BILL KING 14 NEWS AROUND THE US 40 COP CAR NEWS 96 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 98 REMEMBERING OUR FALLEN HEROES 108 WAR STORIES 112 AFTERMATH 116 OPEN ROAD 120 CLASSIFIEDS - NEW 122 HEALING OUR HEROES 124 DARYL’S DELIBERATIONS 126 LIGHT BULB AWARD 128 RUNNING 4 HEROES 130 BLUE MENTAL HEALTH WITH DR. TINA JAECKLE 134 ADS BACK IN THE DAY 138 PARTING SHOTS 140 BUYERS GUIDE 160 NOW HIRING - L.E.O. POSITIONS OPEN IN TEXAS 202 BACK PAGE

RETIRED COPS & THEIR

RETIRED COPS & THEIR SHOPS We asked some retired officers from the Houston Police Dept. to tell us about their wildest experiences in their old shops. These are their stories ... the names have been changed in case the statute of limitations hasn’t expired. Randy Every time i shared a car with a certain day shift officer it would eventually get roach infested. One night after fighting them off most of the night me and my partner decided to use a couple of bug bombs on them. So the next night at the beginning of the shift behind the station we tossed a bomb into the car and one into the trunk and shut the doors. MIS- TAKE, even with the windows and trunk closed it looked like smoke pouring out of the car. Before long there was a crowd standing around us and we had to tell them what was going on. White powder was EVERYWHERE. No telling how much we breathed in just cleaning it out. Mark I was working a Hot Spot detail and on this particular hot and muggy night, we had just rounded up three crack dealers after chasing them round and round through an apartment complex. All of us, including the three suspects, were soaked with sweat. While parked in a Stop N’ Go parking lot filling out our paperwork, one of the three in the back started wrenching and then proceeded to vomit his recently consumed Spaghetti O’s all over the second suspect seated next to him. This led to the second suspect vomiting all over the third suspect. The vehicle began shaking as all three of them tried to move away from each other. My partner and I jumped out and threw open the rear doors and asked them what the H*LL happened? One of them said, “Well, he got sick on me and I got sick on him....” and so on. We pulled all three of them out and after securing a mop, bucket, soap, water, rags and anything else that seemed appropriate, had the first suspect clean himself up along with the second suspect, who in turn had to clean up the third suspect. Then we had them all mop out the backseat and floorboard before transporting them to jail. Even after all their work spent cleaning the back of our shop, the smell never quite went away. Every summer night after that, once the car warmed up, the smell returned. I think we eventually got used to it but would be reminded of it each time a prisoner placed in the backseat would ask, “What’s that smell back here?” Glen I was just off probation at Park Place with no regular assigned shop and no pool shops available. The sergeant gave me the shop of a notorious set of partners who probably still hold the record for most assists dropped. I pulled into the car wash at Telephone Rd. and Park Place. When the blow dryer activated, there was a loud thud from the front end. The grill to the Dodge Monaco had been taped together with Scotch tape. Now I know why they didn’t wash it. John I was not supposed to ever tell this . I was riding with Skip and we were trying to catch up to a chase . We went over the tracks at Bellfort and Mykawa , Skip driving because he would not let me drive . Don’t blame him . Anyway I diverse lol. We go over the tracks and the floor underneath Skips seat gives way and it actually drags the pavement. The air conditioning condensation rotted out the floor. But the funniest thing was me laughing my ass off , Skip with his face pressed against the window and that voice of his looking at me . “ Don’t you ever tell anyone what just happened “ . Lol I think I told the first person I saw. But anyone who knew Skip Todd . Omg I laughed and laughed. He was a great guy . W Bruce I had been on about a week (early September 1977) and we tied our shop up for a PM. Got it back the next day. My FTO, Bobby Brooks, drove our loaner back and I followed in our shop. I pulled up to the light s/b on the loop service road at Beechnut and the engine was idling at about 6,000 rpm. I put on the lights and went through the intersection and on to the station with my foot on the brake. I pulled to a stop behind Beechnut and turned the key off. I never heard a car make the sound it made. Like maybe a whale raking a breath to dive. It backfired and sounded like artillery. Officers were ducking and drawing weapons. David My partner and I were transporting a field dope salesman to 61 Riesner one afternoon when all of a sudden a bullet discharged in the front seat of our shop. My partner was driving and immediately looked at me and said are you shot ? I replied no, how about you ? Right after uttering those words our prisoner in the back started a sort of cry-yelling. Please don’t shoot me , please don’t shoot me ! I’ll tell you anything you want , who else is dealing in the hood and where ! At this point my partner and I were trying to figure out what just happened as we knew that the prisoner did not have a gun as we both searched him twice. My partner asked me why I did I shoot ? I said I didn’t fire a round. Still unconvinced, he asked me to check my revolver. So I did and showed him 6 very much live cartridges ! So he pulled over into the closest parking lot and we got out and started to search our prisoner. Our prisoner thought we were going to shoot him as he begged us not to. For some reason he actually thought one of us took a shot at him ! After searching our prisoner again and researching the back seat area, we put him back in and he thanked us profusely ! My partner and I both felt like the “shot” came from inside the car , in the area of our front seats. We both started searching each side under the seats, between the seats,the center console, under the dashboard. I finally started to search the floorboards , moving the well worn and torn rubber floor mat and there I found a spent shell casing with the primer still intact ! After a few seconds and feeling the floorboards and feeling that they were very hot, we decided that this round stuck between the hot floor boards and covered with the thick rubber mat, had just cooked off ! We had no idea who had been using this shop before us or how long it was at our station. We continued on to 61 Riesner and when we arrived, our prisoner kept his word to us ! He told us about every dope field sales representative’s name, where they sold, what they sold and when they sold dope. ! We never did find the bullet. Thank God it didn’t hit any of us. Mike Another time, we got back in one of those 1979 Dodges. We started the car, and the entire engine was engulfed by flame! Thought it was the end of that POS. Came back the next night, it was back in service! Russell Park place night shift, riding with my training officer (who will remain unnamed). We were in another town, WAY out of our district (for a reason I won’t share here). He ran hot, trying to get back to where we were supposed to be, when 78 The BLUES The BLUES 79

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