Night Officer Archibald: A Short Story

Tonight I rode with Officer Archibald and it was a little different than usual because they made this rule that the night officers had to stay on the campus they were assigned instead of floating between all of them. So we were on Busch and Livingston most of the night and it was funny because Officer Archibald was telling me how he just got back onto nights and was on day for a year. It was funny because I was going to do a day shift that Tuesday. So, I asked him what I should expect from the day shift and he told me it was a lot more belated things like theft and all the brass are their so you have to be dressed completely cause the night officers do not have to wear ties while days ties are mandatory. So, we drove around Busch and we pulled over this Audi by the Visitor’s Center for running the stop sign by Silvers and …show more content…
While another said what was he just like you know what let’s just throw in the black just in case. Nothing came of it so Officer Archibald and I headed back to Busch. We met Officer Brenton at the Livi plaza looking for cars running the stop sign and got one and we pulled it over in the Yellow Lot and issued the driver a ticket. Then we continued to patrol that lot for people smoking weed. However, we found a car all the way in the back of the lot with two occupants who were “making out”. I asked Officer Archibald if they got a ticket for that and he said no having an officer come up to your window is punishment enough. He just told them that they can do what they are doing but, they just can’t do it in a parked car. Then we headed over to Busch to back up the Sargent who pulled over a car by the stadium. We just observed to make sure nothing bad happened. Then Officer Brenton radioed dispatch that he found a car parked in Yellow Lot that he believed had drugs, and paraphernalia and that he need the Sargent for a voluntary