A baby cries, a cop dies, a day's pay on the wildside.
-Motley Crue
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted in on the action. Every rough sport from football to wrestling to boxing. I remember winning the local MMA heavyweight championship only a week before shipping out to basic training for the Army. I did three combat tours with the Second Ranger Battalion before coming back home to Dempsey, Washington. Obviously my next move was getting a job with Dempsey PD. Which leads me to where I'm at now. Watching my undercover officer troll up and down the street in the rain, trying to entice prospective John's into paying her for sex.
As the lieutenant for the Dempsy Police Department's Third Precinct Community Action Team, this was one my duties. Previously known as the Street Crime Unit, the brass thought the team needed a softer image so renamed us for better PR. We still do the same damn job as we did before, just new and improved, I guess. Sitting in the warm Toyota Tacoma I was issued by the department, I can't help but feel a little sorry for Allison as she walks up and down Front Street, wearing a pink hoody, stained Daisy Duke shorts and a pair of thigh high leather boots.
Allison is usually a rather attractive latina woman with long black hair, and an athletic, muscular build. She was able to make herself look a little extra grungy by pulling her hair into a super tight ponytail, which pulled the skin on her face back, and adding a little bit of over the top makeup to her eyes and lips. A usual customer for the ladies on Front Street would probably make her right away, but to the average, run of the mill John, she would seem like a special deal.
"You guys nice and warm in the pickup?" She asks me and my partner Harry over the radio microphone in her ear.
I laugh before I take a sip of my coffee and answer her, "You know it, sister."
I see her give me a death glare through the rain spotted windshield and I can't help but give her a wide, toothy grin as I raise my coffee cup.
"You mess with the bull, man." Harry says.
"I'm not too worried, worst she'll do is cuss me out in Spanish or whatever the fuck." I say as I pull a tin of Copenhagen from my jacket pocket and put a half a golf ball sized lump in my lip.
"And that shit will kill ya."
"Yeah, not soon enough." I laugh.
Harry is a few years younger than me and a total health nut. I require all my people to workout for at least an hour a day for a couple reasons. The first being that I fought like hell for us to get a weight room just for the Community Action Team (or CAT Team), and the second reason being that we get in more fights and chases than any other division in the entire department. I need my people to be physically prepared at any moment. Harry takes it a step further by not drinking alcohol or caffeine and the guy would most likely die from a single milligram of nicotine. I on the otherhand, while not in bad shape for my age, do partake in multiple vices.
A black sedan pulls up to Allison and stops. Harry begins typing the license plate number into the tablet mounted in the pickup. I look through a spotting scope and see a young white guy with brown hair leaning over the passenger seat talking to her. Allison pops her hips side to side as she struts to the passenger window. She leans down and rests her forearms on the window. Harry and I listen to their conversation through Allison's earpiece.
"Hey, baby. You looking for some fun?" She asks with a heavier than usual Mexican accent.
"Hell yeah. I ain't ever seen a gal like you on this street." He says.
"Well, maybe you just aren't looking hard enough." She smiles before opening the door and getting in the car.
I pull up my radio and notify the other two cars that Allison has a bite. I put the pickup into drive and get ready to follow the sedan.
Allison tells the driver to pull into an alley just around the corner. It's a spot we always use, since it allows us to block the car in and get a good tactical advantage on the driver.
They get moving and we tail them. I continue to listen to their conversation.
"So what do you want, baby?" Allison asks.
"Well, I just want you to gag on my dick." He says.
"That's not too bad of a request."
"How much?"
"For a blowjob? 20 bucks." she says.
"No, I don't want just a blowjob. I wanna fuck that throat." He says.
"In that case, fifty dollars."
"Deal."
I look to Harry, "Can you believe this guy?"
"Hey, he just knows what he wants." Harry laughs.
I watch as they pull into the alley and stop. I tell the other cars to wait on the codeword, frazzled. Then, we all listen intently to the conversation being had in the car.
"I need payment up front." Allison says.
I can see through the sedan's back windshield, the guy has his hand on the back of Allison's head.
"Come on, girl. I gotta know that it's worth it first." He says.
"No, no, no." She says, "I gotta have at least a down payment, papi."
"Okay, fine."
I hear some paper shuffling around and finally his voice, "Here."
"Thanks, papi. Sorry, I'm just a little frazzled."
I put the pickup in drive and press the pedal to the floor. We pull up close behind the sedan and I hit the brakes, bringing us to a stop within three feet of the sedan's bumper. I jump out as soon as the pickup is in park with my Glock 45 drawn. Harry is holding an AR-15, outfitted with an optic and a forward grip under the barrel. The other two unmarked cars come down the other end of the alley and stop short in front of the sedan and get out with guns out.
I hold my pistol at the low-ready, which is with the barrel pointed at the ground halfway between me and the driver. I can see that Allison is maintaining her cover, acting just as surprised as the john. I know she has a Glock 43X in a holster under her hoody, but she will only draw that if the situation turns dire. The driver is visibly freaking out through the back windshield. It's moments like this that make me wish I had taken position in front of the car, so I could see the face of the driver.
"Dempsy PD! Turn the engine off and throw the keys out the window." I yell.
The driver doesn't move at all. It's not an uncommon response to a felony stop. People often freeze in these types of circumstances. I notice the brakelights are still activated, meaning he might not have put the car in park. I hope for Allison's sake, it is.
"Turn the engine off and throw the keys out the window."
The driver begins hitting the steering wheel, driving his whole body behind each hit.
"Driver! Turn the engine off and throw the keys out the window!" I yell for a third time.
It's oddly quiet. The only sounds I can hear are the low hums of the engines. I see the two unmarked units in front of the sedan with the four other members of the CAT Team. Among the four of them, two have AR-15's one has a pistol and the last has a 40mm grenade launcher loaded with less lethal foam rounds that have been known to knock a fucker out. Amongst the silence, I am happy that my people are so well trained. Generally, when you get six officers on a high-risk stop like this, everyone starts yelling and the driver has no idea who to listen to.
"Driver! Last warning, turn the engine off and throw the keys out the window. If you do not comply, we will be shooting gas into the vehicle." I yell.
Allison knows the drill. We will begin a countdown from five, once we get to three, she will jump out of the car and we'll immediately shoot a cannister of OC gas into the car. If she's unable to exit the car, we will buy time. If she says the word brazen, Tiny Martin up front will put a round between the driver's eyes.
"Driver! You have five seconds to comply." I yell, before grabbing the single shot 40mm grenade launcher from my floorboard. I previously loaded it with an OC cannister, or in laymen terms, pepper spray cannister.
"Five....."
I watch as the driver suddenly stops moving.
"Four...."