{"id":13401,"date":"2015-10-27T22:05:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2015-10-27T22:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T03:05:46","slug":"ride-along-with-sedgwick-county-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=13401","title":{"rendered":"Ride Along with Sedgwick County Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22227419096\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5624\/22227419096_98def3bcd3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, Brian and I had our ride alongs with Wichita Police Department &#8211; Patrol North. Recently we had our ride alongs with the Sedgwick County Sheriff. I really enjoy ride alongs because you learn so much, especially what not to do. LOL. <\/p>\n<p>Brian and I both asked for 5 beat but I guess only one of us could do it. Brian ended up being assigned to the ride along on that beat. I ended up assigned to 609, which actually turned out better because we were assigned to the jail and could go anywhere we wanted to go. <\/p>\n<p>One of the surprises of the night was finding out that the shift sergeant went to high school with Brian. They were actually in ROTC together. The way the sergeant told me about how he recognized Brian\u2019s name and asked if Brian went to Derby High made me think that they actually liked each other back then and weren\u2019t sworn enemies. That was cool.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was another surprise. I didn\u2019t expect that we\u2019d be able to have dinner together, let alone eat at all. The deputies on the South side apparently try to meet up for dinner when they can so Brian and I ended up having a nice dinner with five of the Sedgwick County Sheriff deputies: the deputies that he and I rode with, met up with three other deputies one of whom also had a rider. There were eight of us altogether at dinner. Though we had to eat pretty fast, none of the deputies had to be called away so we were all able to enjoy a nice dinner together with great conversation. And, I was glad that I got to spend time with Brian last night without having to run into him at a crime scene.<\/p>\n<p>Ride alongs are always educational. Here are just some of the gems I filed away in my brain from last night\u2019s adventures.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 Sheriff deputies see everything. Even things we don\u2019t even notice.<br \/>\n\u2022 They can quickly change direction by making some crazy u-turns of the \u201cdon\u2019t try this at home\u201d variety. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a main road with a good amount of traffic. Before you even realize what\u2019s happening, you\u2019re going in the opposite direction. We did this a few times. It was wild. Brian said that during one of the times his deputy did it, he actually had to brace himself against the dash because it was so swift.<br \/>\n\u2022 If you have any warrants and somehow end up driving in front of a Sedgwick County Sheriff squad car, you\u2019re hosed. They run almost every license plate they come across. Yes, they do this while they\u2019re driving down the road.<br \/>\n\u2022 Do not drive slowly in the fast lane. As annoying it is when this happens to me, it\u2019s a hundred times more annoying when you\u2019re a law enforcement office who\u2019s trying to get somewhere quickly. If the deputy is in a hurry to get somewhere, you won\u2019t get a ticket; however, if they\u2019re just riding around, you will get a ticket because this really pisses them off. Be smart and move to the middle or right lane because the deputies like to drive fast and you\u2019re not going to be able to pace them. Trust me.<br \/>\n\u2022 They\u2019re not allowed to pass on the right, which is why the slow drivers in the fast lane are even more frustrating.<br \/>\n\u2022 Some deputies are really funny. Brian and I were lucky enough to ride along with a couple of really cool ones. The deputy I rode with had an awesome personality and we got along great.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve done three ride alongs now &#8212; WPD Patrol South last year, WPD Patrol North a couple of weeks ago, and Sedgwick County Sheriff last night. I have to say, the one last night was the most memorable and most fun one I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not very often that you get to ride in a car that\u2019s going 100+ miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22271914191\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5761\/22271914191_01e460e076.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Brian and I had our ride alongs with Wichita Police Department &#8211; Patrol North. Recently we had our ride alongs with the Sedgwick County Sheriff. I really enjoy ride alongs because you learn so much, especially what not to do. LOL. Brian and I both asked for 5 beat but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262],"tags":[2526,2537,2530,2531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13403,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions\/13403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}