Random Police Officers Reveal The Worst Criminal Encounters Of Their Careers (19 items)

• (#9) A Father Shot His Son In The Face During An Argument

  From Redditor /u/fukkinmike:

  This might be a little different, and I'm late to the party, but here goes. A few years ago we get sent as the second car to a family disturbance, sent as routine. Halfway there we get updated to roll code three to a shots fired call... at the same house. We arrive and there is a young man with what looks like a stick in his hand lying on the ground already zero (dead). My partners have an older man in handcuffs in the back of their unit. After speaking to a lady (the wife) and another young man (son) who were home, the story comes out. The family disturbance was the deceased young man breaking a chair and hitting his dad with the broken chair legs. Dad gets gun, warns son, son doesn't stop, dad [fires]. I will never forget the way the father looked me in the eye and said, "I'm going to hell for this aren't I?"
• (#15) A Neo-Nazi Child Predator Was Caught In A Facebook Sting

  From Redditor /u/auxillary-priest:

  My father is currently a chief and used to be a detective for a short stint. The majority of his detective career [was spent] chasing down a [predator] who was tried for 30 counts [...] [including] sexual misconduct with a minor, and various charges of the like. My father spent day and night for close to a year gathering enough evidence to ensure he could put the bastard away for good. Aged my father like nothing I've seen. Finally arrested the guy by posing as a 13-year-old that we'll call Amber on Facebook. Agreed to meet up with the scumbag at a local park to have sex. My father and his crew rolled up quietly and approache him from behind the bench he was sitting on and says, "Hi sweetie, my name's Amber." [The criminal is] currently serving a 180-year sentence without parole.
• (#12) A Man Was Arrested For Carrying A Gun, But He Also Had A Cache Of Photos

  From Redditor /u/OKHnyc:

  Grabbed a guy walking down the street with a shotgun in one of those 12 can beer holders cigarette companies used to give away (yeah, I'm old). We get the cuffs on him and he starts getting all chatty in car about all the other guns that's he has. One thing leads to another and we use his statement to get a warrant to get the rest [...] We go to the apartment with the warrant and there are HUNDREDS of different firearms and corresponding boxes of ammo and we start cataloging it and carrying it out.

  Then we notice cases of photo albums and videotapes.....

  Aaaaaaaaaand it's [images of] child[ren]. I take random samples and as difficult as it is... confirm that it's children being photographed doing sexual things. It's logical that given the sampling that the rest of it was kiddie porn, too.

  Well, not enough for the ADA who took the case. I explained to her how we arrived at the number and she said that in order for him to be charged for all the [lewd images], that I would have to testify that all of it was indeed porn. I was the arresting officer, I was swearing out the complaint and I also had to make sure [offender] went to jail for a very long time.

  I sat in a room in the stationhouse for hours on end going through hundreds of photo albums full of children being destroyed. I viewed videotapes of innocence being swept away and in the end, I wept. I did not stop weeping for days. 20 some odd years later, I still have my moments and every so often I'll see a kid that looks familiar and I'll think.... It haunts me constantly because I couldn't save them. I'm supposed to defend the ones that can't defend themselves. That was my sacred vow and yet, all I could do was catalog their horror.

  Years later, I was a first responder to the WTC attacks and saw horrors that no person should ever have to see and yet, 9/11 wasn't close to being my worst day on that job.
• (#2) A Man Cleavered A Mom And Her Four Children

  From Redditor /u/ThrowAwayStowAway718:

  I'm terrible with dates and time frames if I didn't write it down, but I'll never forget October 26, 2013. This was in Brooklyn. Squad called an 85 at such and such address. A neighbor had called in an assault in progress and the detective squad happened to be on the block for another reason. They got there fast and met the perp coming out the front door. We get there a couple minutes after as the perp is being walked in handcuffs to the car. I went into the house to see if everybody was okay and what the 85 was about.

  Long story short, perp hacked a woman and her four kids (infant to 12 years old) to death with a meat cleaver. Mom and oldest were still breathing when we came in the door, but not for long after that. Three babies were all in the back bedroom. The apartment looked pretty much like what you would imagine if you tried to imagine something like that. You could taste the blood in the air, there was so much of it. When I walked out to get a look at the perp, a detective told me, "See if you can get his name but don't ask him anything else." Guy was seated in the backseat in handcuffs and had a look in his eyes that I can't even describe here. The devil was let loose in that apartment.
• (#3) A Man Had Relations With His Girlfriend's Toddler

  From Redditor /u/Gnartan:

  Had a guy who had been f*cking his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter. He found out he had gotten busted and took a whole bunch of [drugs] and probably anything else in the house he could get his hands on. Was found unresponsive and put in an ice bath by his friends and one of them was nice enough to call 911. Hell of it is that when we show up the girlfriend is defending him, stashing contraband and trying to keep us from entering the apartment without a warrant. Exigent circumstances, hip hip hooray, get out of my way and we got him to the hospital. Hell of it is that while we got him out she flushed all their sh*t and deleted all the images from his phone of the [offenses]. F*ckin' mom choosing her [deplorable] boyfriend over her daughter. Lowest of the low. He pled to a lesser charge eventually due to a lack of evidence and she caught a tampering with physical evidence charge and got her kid taken away. She's out and works at a local restaurant that I'll never go to again.
• (#8) A Man Kept A Woman Locked In A Cage

  From Former Redditor:

  [I] received a call from a concerned neighbor in an apartment complex. She advised a female upstairs was screaming for help. Me and my partner conducted a knock and talk and a very large male answered the door wearing boxers. We asked him if anyone else was in the apartment, he looked back towards the bedroom turned and looked back at us and paused for a second and then said no. Me and my partner looked at each other sensing something was wrong. We looked down and observed blood on the tile floor and made entry due to exigent circumstances.

  I spoke with the male in the living room and I see he was getting extremely worried. My partner walked into the bedroom and I see his face lose its color. He stepped back and started shouting lock [him] up NOW! He then tried to make a run for it. After he was detained we returned to the room and I saw a girl locked in a dog cage beaten half to death. The investigation revealed he had been holding her hostage in the apartment for several months [assaulting] her and [selling] her out to sick f*cks and forcing her to eat dog food. She was unable to stand. I believe both legs and arms were broken. Both eye sockets were so badly broken and bruised they swelled up over her eyes. The bed sheet which I could only assume was once white was completely covered in blood stains.

   I've been on the scene of somewhere around 100+ murders, countless auto fatalities and everything in between and to this day its just about the only thing that gets to me. I couldn't understand how someone could be that evil. When I returned to my patrol vehicle to run their information I looked at her driver's license photo and couldn't recognize her that's how badly she had been beaten. I've seen her once since the incident; she is now blind in both eyes and can still hardly walk. It sucks to think about how many times I'd been at that apartment building on other calls while she was locked in a cage and had probably been standing just feet away from her.

  The entire time the suspect was in my back seat he was just staring me down through my rear view mirror with the smuggest f*cking grin on his face, I had to step out of the car and get away from him because I was getting so worked up. I don’t think there's a punishment severe enough that monster.

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