[Serious] Cops of Reddit, what was the most heartbreaking arrest have you ever had to make, but it was your duty to make it?
[Serious] Cops of Reddit, what was the most heartbreaking arrest have you ever had to make, but it was your duty to make it?
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It’s a tie between every goddamned time I had to arrest a parent in front of one of their young kids.
I know I’ve had a few but none come directly to mind. That’s the job though and it has to be done without bias. Sometimes good people get an unfair shake and sometimes bad people get all the breaks.
I was working overnights and a car passed me at 93 in a 60. I flipped around and got it stopped. I asked the driver if he had an explanation. Hold told me, and I later verified, that his 6 year old daughter was dying in a hospital 65 miles from where I stopped him. I went back to my car to check things out and was advised he had a warrant from an agency 200 miles away that would extradite. I had no choice due to state law dictating the arrest if the issuing agency would extradite. His father who was with him followed us to the station and processed him as fast as I could. I then escorted him to our county line as fast as I could. I learned later that he made it to the hospital less than an hour before his daughter passed.