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Guy who lives on the corner of a busy residential intersection gets fed up with all the cars running the stop signs. Complains
about it enough to the police chief so Officer Hoke is dispatched to go work traffic there for a few hours. Officer Hoke stations
himself next to the guy’s driveway, and pulls over an impressive number of violators. Next day, the guy is mad now because he
didn’t see the police officer actually pull anybody over. We had to explain the obvious to him; everybody who got stopped was
stopped about a block away on each of the four streets involved; nobody was stopped of course in the middle of the intersection.
Which I guess is what the guy was totally expecting to see.

When I first started my job in 1993, the traffic fine was only $37 dollars for just about every offense. Over the years the state
lawmakers added extra amounts to fund special state projects, and there was general inflation, and eventually the standard
ticket penalty amount increased to a whopping $136 dollars. It used to be a LOT easier to issue tickets to people when the fine
was only $37.

Husband and wife reported their teenage daughter had run away from home again. They thought she was at her boyfriend’s
house up the street and had been there all weekend. I asked them if they had bothered to go there and get her themselves and
they said they hadn’t. The dad then adds “To be honest officer, I don’t care enough to go look for her myself or make any calls
to try and find her.”

Manager of motel called 911 to report a guest had checked out and left behind, uh, 3 pounds of marijuana. This was years ago
when having 3 pounds was super illegal. Actually having 3 grams would have been illegal as hell. I showed up, confiscated the
impressive 3 pounds of dope, and then a short time later the owner actually came to the PD to claim it. He said he had not
actually checked out and he wanted his 3 pounds of Medicinal Marijuana back. Although his medical marijuana card had expired
and technically was not valid, the prosecutor told me to just release it all back to him; no charges were filed.