Cops! at the library-public lewdness and warrants

[depechemodefan]

dowdy pasty woman: dp
guy who let his hand do the walking: gw
cop guy: cop
security dude: sd
security supervisor: ss
me : me
cw : cw

We have a city cop work at our city library; they rotate. We pay these cops overtime, which is $56/hr. Some of these cops just sit in front, playing with their phones. Other cops walk around, keeping an eye out.

So the cop on Mon. was walking around when he sees gw fondleing dp's breasts. So he gets them to go up front with him. Cop asks sd to call his supervisor.

SS comes up and cop has gotten the names of the two idiots. He goes outside to his car to run their names. SS is writing their names down for his incident report.

DP: cops are always busting me for nothing.
GW: I hope this doesn't affect my job...I hope this doesn't affect my child support.

Cop come back.

Cop: I asked you if you guys had warrents, and you both said no. You (gw) have 8 and you (dp) have 2. I called for someone to take you to jail.
Cop hand-cuffs both.

As the Cop is doing his paperwork, I have to go to the bathroom but I can't leave my desk unattended, since it's the desk in the lobby. I go to a cw and ask her to watch the desk. When I come back, she is kind of giddy and asked me what happened with the two. I tell her. Great day watching losers getting tossed out the library.

DP is one of those women who I see a lot in the library with different guys. I don't know if she was doing sex-for-money, or is one of those women who is always getting new men, since the guys they get get sick of their shit or she is trying to find new blood to take care of her.

[MoonCat]

Wow, and she sure can pick 'em, too. He had EIGHT warrants? What a prize. Yeah, that will go over well with CPS.

[Marmalady]

My attitude has always been that whatever consenting adults do in private is their own business...... In this case.....

Consenting, obviously - adult, possibly - but private? A city library?

[depechemodefan]

pd does have a point about being busted a lot. Either it involved her or someone who is pasty-dowdy, but I remember a cop who was at the library having to ask some questions of someone one who was doing something bad. It was bad enough to be just tossed from the library but I think the person also said she had a warrent. The cop didn't want to become involved but he did call a dispatcher to get someone to pick up the woman when she left the library. When the person left the library, she didn't have a car so she would stay in the area, easy to be found by a patrol car.

Also the cop was asking the grabby duo if they had any other ids on them, that it would be illegal for them to have second ids in jail. They were both politely saying no sir. And he asked them if they had any drugs on them, they would be in real problem if they had drugs on them in jail and they both said no.

Pretty sure both were hoping no one find drugs on them-maybe lying like they did about the warrants will work this time?

[Howler]

OK, I've apparently lived a sheltered life... what library needs uniformed cops?

More to the point, WHY would a library need uniformed cops? That's kind of sad...

As an aside, I spend a lot of time in my (granted, suburban) library, but damn....

[drunkenwildmage]

I think it depends on the neighborhood... the one I go to by my house, (in the city) always has security, either a rent-a-cop, or an off duty City officer, or Sheriff deputy that is Moonlighting.. one of the other ones I go to from time to time, which is part of the same system, doesn't, but that is in more of a suburban area.

[vloglady]

I work in a library in NYC, we have 64 branches. My library is nice and quiet. some of our branches have security guards. Not real cops.

[Lots42]

I go to a suburb library and we get tons of cops all the damned time. Now I like the idea of tons of cops but it also makes me wonder wth. We also have regular security because we get members of the general public and we all know how crazy they are.

[Dilorenzo]

The title of this post should be a follow up band to Panic! at the disco.

Who wouldn't go see the Cops! at the library-public lewdness and warrants trio? I know I would.

[depechemodefan]

Our library had several security guards. To toss out the drunks, sleepers, racket-revelers, etc. Though unless the librarian goes up to a security guard and tells him/her that there is a problem, they don't "see" a problem.

More than a year ago either the police offered us a free off-duty cop or the manager found out we qualify for a free off-duty cop, so we got one. Then they started to charge us for the cop. Considering how many times a week (at least once) a cop has to play peacekeeper, the management figured we could use a cop.

[ShadowBall]

Wowww, now those were some true winners. Gotta love when people think if they lie about shit, they automatically won't get caught. "Hmm,must be I just got all those warrants at the same time. Why's everyone picking on meeeee?"

And I'm another one who has never heard of police officers working in a library. Wow, even the library in the ghetto next to my old dorm didn't have any police working there, and this is the same neighborhood where gunshots rang out across the street either on St. Patrick's Day or when the Steelers won or lost. Good times.

[Sleepwalker]

My library is attached to the police station.

[taxguykarl]

My local PL is within 5 minutes of our local police station.

[Andara Bledin]

My current local libraries (the three that are closest to where I live) all are either right next to or right in front of police departments.

^-.-^

[Geek King]

Although, to be fair, I had a cop tell me that most warrants issued are for failure to appear for tickets (parking tickets, moving violations, ect.) or bench warrants for not paying your fines after your court appearence. You know, just exactly the sorts of things your average SC would think they are above doing.