The Officer Assist

Among officers there is a certain understanding, a code if you will. Regardless of race, gender, creed, we are brothers and we are blue. If trouble befalls one of our brothers then we shall befall that trouble. On one occasion we were setting up for a rather massive raid. 40 vehicles were brought in to raid a single apartment complex with the end goal of nabbing a violent offender. All 40 vehicles met at one location prior to initiating the raid, and just then an assist comes out. A university police officer was fighting four suspects about six blocks up the road. 40 vehicles and their officers immediately forgot about the raid. We'll get that guy later. Right now a brother is in need. We shut down the entire area through sheer saturation. There was absolutely no chance for the suspects to escape and all were caught. The officer was mildly injured but was amazed at the sheer tonnage of help that came for him. And we're not even on the same dept.

And then there's the other side. The ones who abuse, or try to abuse, this code among brothers. There's nothing criminally illegal about having an affair. A marriage, in the eyes of the state, is a civil contract. So an officer sleeping with someone else's wife isn't a criminal act, but it is an immoral one and will likely result in administrative discipline. An officer sleeping with another's wife, and then having the husband come home to catch them will be in a tricky situation. An officer who leaves all his uniform parts and weapons in another room, which the husband finds before catching his wife and the officer will likely lead to a fight or just tragedy. Now if the officer does all that, he should take his lumps, or dish them out, retrieve his equipment and take the punishment he's going to get. What he should not do is call for an assist and attract every officer within 20 miles, as well as helicopters and press, to his location because he was entirely unable to keep his dick inside of his pants, as well as deal with the consequences. That's how you lose your job. Don't do that.